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Embodying a brief history and'description of all the regular New York and 

neighboring cemeteries, tneir location and accessibility^ together 

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PREFACE, 



Over one hundred and forty cemeteries are described and 
treated of this enlarged and up-to-date edition of Leonard's 
-Manual of the Cemeteries and the information presented has 
been generally supplied by officials at the cemeteries referred to. 
The book describes all the regular cemeteries wherein interments 
are made within twenty-five miles of Greater New York and to 
an inquiring public as well as to those directly interested in cem- 
eteries, full and essential information regarding prices and sizes 
of lots, plots and graves is also given. Countless graveyards 
there are in the vicmity of the metropolis dating back in some 
instances 200 years, but while most of them are merely relics of 
the past, events of importance and associations of historical value 
are connected with them which, however, do not come within 
the range of this work. This book is essentially a compendium 
of information respecting cemeteries now in operation and use 
and a new and most attractive feature of the samie is the laws of 
the States of New York and New Jersey for the regulation of 
cemeteries. To cemetery officials and the public alike must this 
adjunct prove interesting and valuable. 

Aside from the bodies buried in the old churchyards, it is esti- 
mated that there have been at least six million interments in the 
one hundred and forty regular cemeteries in the neighborhood of 
Nw York City during the last fifty years. Prior to that period 
churchyards and small isolated burying grounds in the rural dis- 
tricts received the remains of those who passed away. The 
wealth, artistic and landscape beauty of many of the cemeteries 
in and near the metropolis give evidence of the progress and 
advancement in interment and the cemeteries of New York rank 
with the best known and most beautiful in any part of the world. 

This book occupies a distinct field of its own. It is unique in 
its scope and the very flattering reception formier editions re- 
ceived have proved beyond doubt the public interest in cemetery 
literature. Reinforced by several new features the present edi- 
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ACACIA CEMETERY. 

WOODHAVEN, L. I. 
OEEICE ON GROUNDS. 

This cemetery is located at Woodhaven, L. I., and adjoins Bay- 
side Cemetery. It is ii acres in extent and receives about lOO 
interments a year. The total number of interments to date about 
250. It is reached by the Kings County Elevated Road to city 
line, thence via electric cars to cemetery. 

Thomas Wanek is the Superintendent. 



AHAWATH CHESEDS CEMETERY. 

East Wieliam burgh, Xew York, 
office on grounds. 

This is a small Jewish cemetery situated in East Williams- 
burgh, near Lutheran Cemetery. It comprises about 13 acres, 
and it is said that there are over 700 bodies buried v^ithin its 
limits. It is reached from New York by the surface cars from 
Grand and Roosevelt Streets ferries, and the Long Island Rail- 
road trains to Middle Village. 



lo Leonard's Manual of the: Ckmi:te:rie:s. 

ARLINGTON CEMETERY. 

Arlington, Hudson County, Ne^w Jersey, 
officers, 239 washington st., jersey city, and 349 

broad ST.^ NEWARK, N. J. 

Arlington Cemetery was founded in 1882, and opened in July 
of the following year. It embraces at present about 40 enclosed 
acres, and is one of the prettiest cemeteries in the State of New 
Jersey. It is located at Arlington, about six miles from Jersey 
City and Hoboken ferries, on the New York & Greenwood Lake 
Railroad, and can be reached from New York by that railroad 
and by the West Newark Avenue, Jersey City, and Belleville 
turnpikes. Already there have been about 4,000 interments ; and 
the average number of interments for the last three years has 
been about 300 a year. Arlington claims the distinction of having 
been the first New Jersey cemetery to adopt the "landscape lawn 
plan," and the wisdom of this plan has been amply demonstrated 
in this cemetery. 

PRICES. 

Adult's single graves, including opening, 3x8x7 feet $16 

Child's " " under 10 years, 7 feet deep 13 

Infant's " " 3 feet x 6 inches long and 7 feet deep. . . 8 
" " " 3 feet long and 7 feet deep 6 

The price of plots range from $100 and upwards, and contain 
108 square feet, allowing for four graves. The erection of corner 
posts, sodding and perpetual care are included in the purchase 
price of each lot. 

The charges for reopening graves are: Child's grave, $4; 
adult's, $5, and extra depth, $6. Two interments are allowed in 
a single grave, and twelve hours' notice is required before the re- 
opening of a grave can be secured. 



Leonard's Manual op" the Cemeteries. ii 

BARON HIRSCH CEIVIETERY. 

Port Richmond^ S. I. 

OFFICE ON grounds. 

Baron Hirsch Cemetery is of Hebrew denomination and is 
situated on Rich avenue, near Vedder avenue. Port Richmond, 
Staten Island. It comprises lOO acres and is reached from St. 
George, S. I., via Bull's Head trolley. Abram Greenwald is 
Superintendent. Address 150 Richmond avenue. Port Rich- 
mond. S. I. 

BAPTIST CEMETERY. 

Paterson, New Jersey, 
office on grounds, oak and laley streets. 

No graves or lots are sold in the Baptist Cemetery. It is one 
of the oldest in Paterson and is small in extent. It belongs to 
the members of the Baptist Churches of that city and within 
recent years few interments have been made in it. 

The cost of reopening a grave is $4. The estimated number of 
bodies buried in this cemetery is 2,500. 

BAYSIDE CEMETERY. 

Jamaica, L. I. 
office on grounds. 

\bout twenty acres comprise the extent of Bayside Cemetery, 
which is located in Jamaica, Long Island. The cemetery is reached 
by the electric cars from East New York or by the Long Island 



12 Lkonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



Railroad to Woodhaven station. Over 600 bodies are buried in 
this cemetery. Single graves $15 and upwards. Lots $100 and 
upwards. Opening graves, adults $3.50 and $2.50. child, $2 
and $1.50. 



BAY VIEW CEMETERY. 

Jersey City, N. J. 

OFFICE, 243 WASHINGTON ST., JERSEY CITY. 

Bay View Cemetery is situated on Ocean Avenue, Greenville,. 
Jersey City, two and one-half miles from Cortlandt and Des- 
brosses Street ferries, Jersey City, and lies adjacent to New York 
Bay Cemetery, being separated therefrom by Chapel Avenue. It 
is a comparatively new cemetery and its lots and plots are owned 
by prominent Jersey City residents, among others E. F. C. Young, 
a well-known banker of Jersey City. The cemetery was founded 
June 2, i88/|, and opened in July, 1885. It is a beautiful cemetery, 
laid out on the lawn plan, and comprises seventeen and one-half 
acres. Over 4,000 bodies have been interred, and the average 
number of interments per year is 600. The grounds are divided 
into 'four sections known as Bay View Section, Edgewood Sec- 
tion, Morningside Section, and Cedar Lawn Section, and are 
reached by the Bayonne and Greenville trolley lines from the 
Pennsylvania ferry, Jersey City ; from New York by Desbrosses 
Street and Cortlandt Street ferries, and by the Central Railroad 
■ of New Jersey, to Greenville Station. Single graves $20 and $30. 
Lots $1.25 to $1.50 per square foot. Opening graves, adult $5. 
child $4. As New York Bay Cemetery operates Bay View Ceme- 
tery, the size of graves and plots, cost of opening graves, number 



Leonard's Manual of the: Cemeteries. 13 



of interments, etc., are about the same in both cemeteries. There 
is no vault. 

Charles E. Souther is President ; John W. Heck, Secretary 
and Treasurer, and Thomas W. Tilden is Superintendent. 



BEECHWOOD CEMETERY. 

New Rocheeee, N. Y. 
office on grounds. 

Beechwood Cemetery, situated on Beechwood Avenue, New 
Rochelle, is about 30 acres in extent, and is reached by the New 
Haven Railroad. It is about 40 years old, and with an average of 
150 interments per year. It is estimated that there are about 6,000 
bodies buried in this cemetery. 

The price of single graves is $15, which includes the opening 
and the size 3x8x6 feet. The reopening charges are $5 for adults 
and $3 for_children's graves. The plots range from $260 to $140, 
18x20 feet and 9x18 feet. There is a vault for which a charge of 
$20 is made for three months with a gradual rebate. J. G. Ross 
is the Superintendent. 



BETHEL CEMETERY. 

TOTTENVTEEE, S. I. 

Situated on Amboy Avenue, corner Church Street, Tottenville, 
Staten Island. ,W. A. Brown is Superintendent and he resides at 
Tottenville. S. I. 



14 Leonard's Manual of the Cemkteriks. 

BERGEN CEMETERY. 

Bergen Ave. and Vroom St., Jersey City, N. J. 

OEEICE, 21 HOBOKEN AVE., JERSEY CITY. 

About 50 interments are made annually in Bergen Cemetery, 
and it is estimated that there are over 2,000 bodies buried in its 
graves. It was opened in 1836 and is located corner of Bergen 
Avenue and Vroom Street, Jersey City, and is reached by the 
Montgomery Street or Newark Avenue cars from the Pennsyl- 
vania ferries, a mile and a half distant. No lots or graves are 
sold. Charges for reopening graves, $6 ; two bodies to each 
grave and twelve graves to a plot. Ten hours' notice required for 
opening a grave, and the vault charge is $2 a month. 

B'NAI ABRAHAM CEMETERY. 

532 S. Orange Ave., Newark, N. J. 

OEFICE AT CEMETERY. 

B'Nai Abraham is a small Jewish cemetery of five acres, lo- 
cated on South Orange Avenue, Newark, and belongs to the 
congregation of that name on Washington Street, in that city. 
It is reached by the South Orange Avenue cars from Market 
Street, Newark. It was opened in 1866 and contains about 700 
bodies. The price of single graves is $25, ordinary dimensions, 
while plots providing for eight and twelve graves cost $200. 
One body is allowed to each grave, and the cost of reopening a 
grave is $3. There is no vault. 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 15 

B'NAI ISRAEL CEMETERY. 

No. 130 Paterson Street, Paterson. N. J. 
OEFTCE at cemetery. 

A small Jewish cemetery is B'Nai Israel. It is situated on 
Paterson Street, Paterson, and is reached from New York by the 
Erie, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Susquehanna & Western 
Railroads, and the Paterson turnpike from Jersey City. It is 
owned by the B'Nai Israel congregation of Paterson. Several 
hundred bodies are buried in this cemetery. 

B'NAI JESHURUN CEMETERY, 

Jamaica Peank Road, L. I. 

This small Jewish cemetery is located on Cypress Hills Road 
and adjoins Cypress Hills Cemetery. 

B'NAI JACOB CEMETERY. 

S. Orange Ave., Newark, N. J. 

B'Nai Jacob Cemetery is five acres in extent and adjoins B'Nai 
Abraham Cemetery, on South Orange Avenue, Newark. It is the 
property of the local Jewish congregation of that name, and is 
cut up into single graves. The price of graves is $25, 2y.'j feet, 
and reopening $3. The cemetery was opened in 1890 and since 
that period about 900 interments have taken place. 



i6 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 
B'NAi JESHURUN CEMETERY. 

Laurel Gru\k, Paterson, N. J. 

OEEICE AT CEMETERY. 

B'Nai Jeshurmi Cemetery is reached the same as Cedar Lawn 
Cemetery, and is situated at Laurel Grove, Paterson. It is a 
private Jewish burying ground and is small in extent. The 
B'Nai Jeshurun congregation of Paterson owns the cemetery. 

CALVARY CEMETERY. 

Newtown, L. L 
office, 266 mulberry st., new york. 

Calvary Cemetery is by far the most important burial ground 
in the vicinity of New York, and, in fact, in the United States 
in point of interments, extent and the number of monuments and 
headstones that go to make it a wilderness of rising tombstones. 
It is the leading Roman Catholic cemetery of the metropolis, and 
has been such since its opening in August, 1848. It belongs to 
the diocese of New York, and it is managed by the Board of 
Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and they are responsible for 
its care and maintenance. The cemetery proper contains about 
300 acres, although there is considerable additional land which 
may, as future occasions require, be converted into a burial 
ground. 

The cemetery is about one and one-half miles from New York 
city, and is reached by ferries from East Tenth Street, East 
Twenty-third Street, East Thirty-fourth Street, and Roosevelt 
Street, and from Williamsburgh by the Grand and Houston 
Street ferries, thence by way of the Grand Street horse cars. 



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The grounds at presen*: are laid out in numbered sections. The 
first ten sections are located in what is known as the Old Calvary, 
the succeeding Six Sections in the first New Calvary and Sections 
17 and 18 and upwards are in those parts of the cemetery last 
opened. Plots, half plots, and quarter plots with graves make 
up the plan of sub-division of the grounds, but only the bodies of 
those persons who die in active Catholic faith and practice are 
allowed to be buried within its precincts. Since the cemetery 
was opened about 700,000 bodies have been interred and the 
considerable number of 18,000 represents the average yearly in- 
terments. There is a "poor" or free ground wherein are buried 
the bodies of the deserving poor of the diocese; but permission 
even for interment in this part is obtainable only upon the 
recommendation of a Catholic clergyman. All permits for inter- 
ment must be obtained, and moneys paid at the New York 
office twenty-four hours in advance of the funeral, and this 
office is open daily from 8 A. M. to 4.30 P. M., except on 
Saturdays when it closes at 2 P. M. The office is not open on 
Sundays The rules governing the enclosure of plots or graves 
prohibit the use of wood or wire. Monuments or headstones 
must be erected on foundations of solid masonry 16 inches 
thick, sunk to a depth of 9 feet, and must be built of stone, 
granite or marble. No removal of a body will be allowed 
between May i and Nov. i. 

John Hogan is Superintendent of the cemetery. 



Single graves, 2x9x9 feet, $15 and $25. according to location, 
and exclusive of opening. 

Plots of 16 graves, $500 and upwards ; fractional plots, $125 
and upwards. Temporary graves, $7 and $3. Opening graves, 
adult, $7; children 7 to 14 years, $5, and under 7 years, $3. 
Vault charges: 



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RECEIVING VAULT. 

Use of Vault per month or less, first month $3-0O 

" " " " after first month 2.00 

** ■' " " for remains not to be interred in 

the Cemetery 5.00 

In addition to these charges for use of vault, the interment fee 

must be paid in all cases before the remains are placed therein. 
The Cemetery authorities may inter the remains in the Free 

Ground without notice, if they are not removed at or before the 

end of the second month. 

CHARGES FOR REMOVAL. 

One Adult to a new grave $7.00 

" Child to a new grave 3-00 

These charges mclude opening and closing graves. 
Additional bodies raised and moved : 

Adult $3-0O 

Child i.oo 

CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY. 

Corona, L. I. 

OEEICES. 123 EAST 23D ST., NEW YORK. AND 887 MANHAT- 
TAN AVE., GREEN POINT. 

Cedar Grove Cemetery was opened in August. 1893. and is 
located between Corona and Flushing. L. I., five and one-half 
miles from New York. It is the nearest cemetery to the upper 
end of the city from the East Ninety-ninth Street Ferry, and is 
reached also by the Long Island Railroad from East Thirty- 
fourth Street Ferry, or by the East Twenty-third. Thirty-fourth, 



20 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



Roosevelt, Houston and Grand Street ferries. About 400 acres 
make up the cemetery, comprising over 40,000 plots, and since it 
was opened over 30,000 bodies have been interred. The lawn 
plan prevails in this cemetery with its accompanying restrictions 
regarding enclosures of graves, plots and lots, and a few hours' 
notice only is required to secure the opening of a grave. 

The size of a single grave is 3 1-2x8 feet, price $9 and $15, 
including opening. Plots, 10x20, iixio and 20x20 admitting 
twelve, twenly-four and forty-eight graves, cost from $50 to 
$500. Plots are sold on the installment plan. Vault charges are 
$15 for adult and $13.50 for infant, but its use is free to a plot 
owner. The purchase of a plot secures the refunding of the 
vault tax. Three adult bodies are allowed to each grave. Cost 
of opening graves is included in purchase price. Reopening is 
$5 for adult, and $3.50 for child. Over 30,000 bodies are in- 
terred in this cemetery. J. Parker Sloane, President, Charles L. 
Sicardi, Comptroller; E. Dwight Church, Vice-President; J. W. 
Fraser. Secretary; J. E. MacAlpine, Superintendent. 

CEDAR LAWN CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

OFFICE, PATERSON SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. 

The cemetery is located in Paterson, N. J., on the boundary 
line between Market Street and Lake View, and is one of the 
leading cemeteries of that city. It is about 25 years old, and 
the estimated number of interments in it is 25,000. The price 
of a single grave is $10, including opening. Plots range from 
$40 and upwards. One body is allowed to each grave. The cost 
of reopening a grave is $5.50 adult and $4 child. Children's 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 21 



graves are $S. including opening. S. Heminsley is Superintend- 
ent, and twelve hours' notice is required for opening graves. A 
deoosit of $14 is necessary to place a body in the vault, and if a 
plot is purchased within three months from the time of placing 
a body in the vault $6 of this is returned and the body removed 
to the plot without further expense. 

CHEVRA B'NA! SHOLAU CEMETERY. 

Newtown, L. I. 

OFEICE AT CEMETERY. 

This is one of a number of small Jewish cemeteries in New- 
town, L. I., and was opened eight years ago. It is reached from 
Long Island City the same as Macpelah Cemetery. 

CITY CEMETERY OF NEW YORK. 

Hart's Island, N. Y. 

office, 148 EAST 20TH ST., NEW YORK. 

The City Cemetery of New York, or Potter's Field, is located 
on Hart's Island, on Long Island Sound, nearly opposite New 
Rochelle, and it is under the control of the New York City 
Department of Correction. The cemetery was opened April 20, 
1869, and contains about 20 acres and receives its bodies from 
the city morgue. It is a cemetery of unclaimed dead. There are 
a number of trenches divided into graves, and three bodies are 
buried in each grave. It is estimated that there are about 
125,0000 bodies buried, and the average number interred yearly 
is about 5,000. The burials take place every day except Sunday, 



22 Lkonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 

and in the winter season on Tuesdays and Fridays only. A 
body can be secured from the City Cemetery by giving 24 hours' 
notice to the Department of Correction, and between May and 
November all exhumed bodies are placed in metallic cases her- 
metically sealed. The City Cemetery is reached by boat from 
the foot of East Twenty-sixth Street, which leaves daily. All 
removals are made only by permit from Board of Health of New 
York City. 

CITY CEiVIETERY OF BROOKLYN. 

Flatbush, L. L 
ofitce, almshouse, flatp.usii. l. i. 

The Potter's Field of Brooklyn is located in the town of Flat- 
bush, near the County Buildings, and is nearly five miles from 
the Brooklyn Bridge. The unclaimed nnd pauper dead of Brook- 
lyn are buried in it, and it is believed that there are several 
thousand bodies already interred in its graves. It is reached by 
way of Flatbush Avenue from Fulton Ferry, and Nostrand 
Avenue from Grand and Roosevelt Street ferries. New York. 

CITY CEMETERY OF JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN. 

Snake Hill. Hudson Co., N. J. 
vOFFicE, c )unty almshouse, snake hill. 

The Hudson County City Cemetery is located at Snake Hill, 
six miles from Christopher and Barclay Street ferries, Hoboken. 
It is reached by the trains of the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Railroad to Secaucus Station, and by the turnpike from 
Jersey City to the former place. 



Leox\^\rd's Manual of the Cemeteries. 23 



CITY CEMETERY OF NEWARK. 

Waverly. N. J. 

OFFICE, OVERSEER OF THE POOR OF NEWARK. 

About 20 acres of ground comprise this cemetery of the 
Newark pauper dead, and is situated at Waverly. just outside of 
the former city, on the Hue of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

CITY CEMETERY OF PATERSQM. 

North Paterson. N. J. 

OFFICE, POORHOUSE. NORTH PATERSON, N. J. 

This cemetery is situated back of the County Poorhouse in 
North Paterson. N. J., and the bodies of those persons w^ho died 
as paupers in Paterson are buried in it. 

CLINTON CEMETERY. 

Union Avenue, Irvington, N. J. 

OFFICE, SPRINGFIELD AVE. AND CENTER ST., IRVINGTON, 

N. J. 

Clinton Cemetery is one of the oldest in the vicinity of 
Newark. N. J., and comprises eight acres. It was opened February 
28. 1844, and there have been over 3,000 bodies interred. It is 
reached from Newark by the Clinton and Springfield Avenue 
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The price of single graves is $13. Plots $75, twelve graves; 
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Twenty-four hours' notice for reopening. 

CONSTABLE HOOK CEMETERY. 

Constable Hook, Bayonne City, N. J. 

OFFICE AT CEMETERY. 

This cemetery is about 35 years old, and is located at Con- 
stable Hook. Bayonne City, N. J., seven miles from the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad Jersey City ferries. The estimated number of 
bodies buried in it is 7.500, and the average yearly number of in- 
terments is fifty. Price of adult graves 2x8x6 feet is $12, child's 
$5. Reopening adult graves is $5, child's $3. The price of plots 
containing eight graves is $50 and upwards. Twenty-four hours' 
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CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY. 

Cypress Hills. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

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Cypress Hills is one of the leading and most beautiful ceme- 
teries of New York, and one of the oldest in the modern class, 
having been opened in November, 1848. About 500 acres com- 
prise its extent and it is estimated that it contains over 150,000 
bodies. The average number of interments annually is about 
2,500. The cemetery is reached from New York by the Grand 
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Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 2J 



road to Ridgewood, whence cars run to the cemetery ; trains of 
Atlantic Avenue. Brooklyn Rapid Transit, cars of the Long 
Island Railroad to Crescent Street, or from the Brooklyn Bridge 
and Fulton, Wall and South ferries, to Jamaica Avenue, thence 
by electric surface cars to the main entrance. The distance from 
New York is about seven miles. The grounds are laid out into 
sections, lots, plots, and graves, and are most picturesque in 
their geographical character, and h?,ndsome vaults and classic 
monuments make the cemetery a most attractive spot. Scores 
of benevolent, social, ecclesiastical, and humane societies own 
plots there, and the best of care and attention are given to their 
maintenance. William Miles is President of the cemeter}-, A. 
M. Fraser, Secretary, and R. F. Butt, Superintendent. 



Prices of lots vary from $5o to $3oo each, depending upon size 
and location. Single graves (including the charge for the first 
opening) are: For adults, $15 and $25; for children $12. Sub- 
sequent interments may be made subject to the usual charge for 
reopening, $4 and $5. Vault charges, adult $15. children up to 
10 years $10. If removed to lot within the cemetery within thirty 
•days $8 for an adult and $4 for a child will be returned. Opening 
graves in private lots, usual depth six feet, $6 and $1 per foot 
additional for any extra depth. Children under 10 years $5 and 
$1 per foot for extra depth. 

DUTCH REFORMED CEMETERY. 

ToTAWA Ave., Paterson, N. J. 

OFFICE ON GROUNDS. 

This old cemetery is located on Totawa Avenue, Paterson, and 
is used only by the members of the Dutch Reformed Church of 



28 Lkonard's Manual of the CemetkriKS. 

that city, who own plots in it. Graves or plots are not sold, and 
the price of opening a grave is $4. The cemetery is reached from 
New York by the Erie, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and 
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroads. Estimated num- 
ber of interments 2,500. 

DUTCH REFORMED CEMETERY. 

Bergen Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
Located on Bergen Avenue, one and a half miles from Penn- 
sylvania Railroad ferries, Jersey City. Office of cemetery is at 
21 Hoboken Avenue, Jersey City. 

EDGEWATER CEMETERY. 

Edge WATER, N. J. 

OFEICE AT CEMETERY. 

Edgewater Cemetery is located at Edgewater, N. ]., on the 
shore of the Hudson River opposite General Grant's tomb in 
Riverside Park, New York City. It is reached via the West Shore 
ferry foot of West Forty-second street, thence three miles by 
River road or by Fort Lee ferry foot of West One Hundred and 
Thirtieth Street. The cemetery comprises about two acres and 
was first opened during the Revolution. The annual interments 
during the past twenty years have averaged forty. The price of 
single graves is $16, and size 2x3x6.6 feet. Plots with fourteen 
graves $100 and upwards. Price of opening graves $6. Two 
bodies to a grave There is no vault. 

EPISCOPAL CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

OFFICE, PATERSON, N. J. 

This cemetery is located on Oak Street, Paterson, N. J., is 



Leonard's Manual of thk Ce^ieteries. 29 



very old, and like the Dutch Reformed Cemetery in that city, 
it is the private burying ground for members of the local 
Episcopal Church. The price for opening a grave is $4. 

EVERGREENS CEIVIETERY. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
oeeice at cemetery. 

Evergreens Cemetery is situated in Brooklyn, and its main 
entrance is near the terminus of the Brooklyn Elevated Road, 
on Bushwick Avenue. It contains 300 acres, and was opened 
for burial purposes in 185 1. It is regarded as a perfect rural 
cemetery by reason of its picturesque seclusion, and the natural 
beauties of its woods, knolls, dells and lakelets, and over $500,000 
have been expended in bringing it to its present state of perfec- 
tion. It was originally organized under the Cemetery Act of 1847, 
but .was reorganized under a special new act of the New York 
Legislature in 1870. It has about 170,000 bodies interred, and 
there is a yearly average of burials amounting to about 5,000. 
There are many fine monuments in the cemetery, and the Actors' 
Fund of America has a plot of considerable size. Twenty thou- 
sand bodies of sailors are buried in this cemetery, the different 
nationalities being represented by stone monoliths. The cemetery 
is reached by the Broadway (Brooklyn) ferries, thence via the 
Elevated Road to Ridgewood. Charles G. Bennett is President 
and Charles Pfeiffer Superintendent of the cemetery. 

PRICES. 

Single graves, adults, $18, $25 and $30, including opening, and 
according to location; children under ten years, $15.50 and $18, 
according to location. Lots. $75 to $1,600. Opening graves costs 
for child, $4. Adult coffin $5. and adult box $6. Single tem- 



30 Lkonard's Manual of the Ckmkteries. 

porary graves $6 for adult, and $3 for child. Vault charges are 
$20 for six months for an adult, and $15 for a child under ten 
years, and there is a rebate of $15 and $10 if a body is removed 
from the vault within three and six months. Three adult bodies 
are allowed to a single grave. 

EVERGREEN CEMETERY. 

Elizabetpi, N. J. 

OFFICE ON GROUNDS, UPPER ROAD TO NEWARK. 

Evergreen Cemetery was opened in 1853, and it is estimated 
that there are about 18,000 bodies buried in it. It is a cemetery 
of about 100 acres, and the average number of interments per 
year is about 600. This cemetery is reached from Newark by 
Freylinghuysen Avenue, and is divided into sections, lots, and 
graves. Single graves are $7, $9, $13 and $18, and opening for 
adult $5, and child $3.50. There is a vault charge of $15 for child 
and $20 for adult which is refunded less $2 when a plot is pur- 
chased. One body is allowed to each grave, and eight hours' 
notice is required to secure an opening. Charles Russ is Presi- 
dent, Edward S. Atwater, Secretary and Treasurer, and H. M. 
Looker, Superintendent. 

EVERGREEN CEMETERY. 

New Brunswick, N. J. 

OFFICE, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 

Eight acres comprise this cemetery, which is located at the 
head of Commercial Avenue, just outside of the city limits of 



LEONARD'h' Manual of the Cemeteries. 31 

New Brunswick, N. J. It was founded in December, 1886, and 
opened the following year. The total number of interments have 
been about 600. The cemetery is reached from New York by 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Central Railroad of New Jersey 
to New Brunswick, thence via Commercial Avenue. 

The size of single graves is 2.6x8x6 feet, and of plots, 12x17, 
12x21, 16x21, 18x21, and 21x21 feet. The single graves cost $6, 
and plots from $50 to $200, according to size and location. There 
are from twelve to twenty-one graves to each plot. Reopening 
grave for adult is $3, and child, $2. Vault charges are $12, of 
which $10 is refunded when a plot is purchased. Bornt Steven- 
son is Superintendent. 

FAIRLAWN CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

SEE PATERSON CEMETERY. 

FAIRMOUNT CEMETERY. 

South Orange Ave., Newark, N. J. 

OEEICE AT CEMETERY. ENTRANCE, 489 S. ORANGE AVE. 

Fairmount is one of the leading, as well as one of the most 
beautiful, cemeteries of the city of Newark, N. J., and com- 
prises one hundred acres, most of which is laid out in sections 
and lots. It is reached from any part of Newark by South 
Orange Avenue by carriage or by cars under the transfer system, 
and the subdivision of the grounds include family burial plots, 
single grave plots, society plots, and soldiers' plots. About 40 
per cent, of the interments are made in single grave plots, com- 
prising plots for adults, youth, and children. The cemetery was 



32 Leonard's Manual o^ the Cemeteries. 

incorporated in 1855, and the first interment was made the same 
year — that of Lewis J. Pierson, in lot 9, Section E. There have 
been about 35,000 interments, and the average number per annum 
is about 1,300. The lawn plan, with its prohibition of enclosures, 
has been adopted by this cemetery. 

Single graves, 2 ft. 6 in. and under, $7; 2 ft. 6 in. to 4 ft., $12; 
over 4 ft. to 5 ft., $18 ; over 5 ft., $25. Lots range in price from 
$205 to $360, six, eight, ten and twelve graves. Opening adult 
grave costs $5 ; youth's, $4, and child's, $3. One body is allowed 
to a single grave, except in the case of a child, which may be 
buried with a parent. Twenty-four hours' notice required to re- 
open a grave. The sum of $25 is charged for the use of the re- 
ceiving tomb for an adult, and $20 for a child under twelve years ; 
but $17 are refunded in case of an adult, and $15 for a child when 
a plot is purchased in the cemetery. 

James A. Banister is President of the cemetery, John J. Henry, 
Secretary; Horace T. Brumley, Treasurer; Charles Nichols, Ad- 
visory Superintendent, and Sylvester C. Hulbert, Superintendent. 

FAIRVIEW CEMETERY. 

Near Castleton Corners, Staten Island, N. Y. 
office,, lawrence steers, west new brighton, s. i. 

Fairview Cemetery is situated on the Richmond Turnpike, near 
Castleton Corners, Staten Island, and commands an extensive 
view of the surrounding country. It is reached from New York 
by the Staten Island ferry to St. George, thence via the Richmond 
Turnpike. The distance is about 3J^ miles. The cemetery is 
about a dozen years old and comprises twelve acres. There have 
been about 900 interments and the average yearly interments 
number about seventy-five. Single graves measure 2.6x8x7 ft. 



Leonard's Manual of the; Cemeteries. 33 

and 3x8x7 ft. and cost $10 and $12. Plots 10x17 ft. are sold for 
$50, six graves, and 12x23 ft. from $75 to $100. There are from 
six to twelve graves to a lot, and the cost of reopening a grave 
is $5, 6 ft. deep, with $1 per extra foot. Two bodies allowed to 
single graves. The cemetery has no vault. Twenty-four hours' 
notice required to reopen graves. Lawrence Steers is Superin- 
tendent. 

FLATLANDS CEMETERY. 

FlvATEANDS, L. L 
OEEICE, 1555 FLATBUSH AVE., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

Although Flatlands Cemetery is one of the smallest in the 
vicinity of New York, it is one of the oldest, burials having taken 
place within its limits as far back as 1686. It is generally sup- 
posed to have been an Indian burying ground. It is three acres 
in extent, and the estimated number of interments that have 
taken place is 2,200. There are about 20 interments per year. 
This cemetery is reached by the Brooklyn Bridge and Fulton 
ferry, thence by way of Flatbush Avenue to the cemetery en- 
trance. The size of single graves is 3x9x6 ft., and the cost, $10; 
reopening, $6, and for less than 4 ft, $4, The lots are 12x18 ft. 
with eight graves ; but they are not sold. Two bodies to a single 
grave. Twenty-four hours' notice for reopening grave and $1 
extra fee is charged for shorter notice. There is no vault. Nich- 
olas W. Brown is Superintendent. 

FLOWER HILL CEMETERY. 

Bergenwood Ave., North Bergen, N. J. 

OFFICE ON grounds. 
This cemetery comprises about twenty acres, was organized in 



34 Lkonard's Manual of thk Cemeteries. 

1859, and was opened in 1884. It is situated on Bergenwood 
Avenue, on the New Hudson County Road, North Bergen, N. J., 
and is reached by West Forty-second Street and Jay Street fer- 
ries to Weehawken. one and one-half miles thence; also by the 
Christopher Street and Barclay Street ferries to Hoboken — four 
miles distant. The average number of interments per year is 
about 3,000. Price of single graves, 2x7x6 ft., is $15; child under 
ten years, $8 ; reopening grave, $5 for adult and $4 for a child, 
usual depth of 6 ft. Opening tombs, $4. Plots, $1, $1.25 and 
$1.50 per square foot, according to location. Vault charges are: 
Adult, $25; child, $20, with $4 per month for adult and $3 for 
child, to be removed within three months. Two bodies to each 
grave, and twenty-four hours' notice for reopening of grave. 

FLUSHING CEMETERY. 

Flushing, L. I. 

OEEICE, 20 MAIN STREET, ELUSHING, L. I. 

Flushing Cemetery is one of the best kept cemeteries in the 
vicinity of the metropolis, and is located one and one-half miles 
southeast of the village of Flushing, L. I. It comprises seventy- 
five acres and is reached by the Long Island Railroad from Hun- 
ters' Point, Jackson Avenue, Long Island City ; East Ninety- 
second Street ferry to Astoria, and East Ninety-ninth Street 
ferry to College Point. The cemetery was opened in 1853 and the 
number of interments since that time have been about 7.500. The 
yearly average is 300. Single graves 3x8x6 cost $10 and $15 
with perpetual care; child's, under ten years, $6; plots ranging 
100 to 600 square feet, 50 cents to 75 cents per foot, including 
perpetual care. Reopening graves, $5 for adult ; children, under 
ten years, $3 ; opening vault under ground, $5. Vault charges. 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 35 



$15 for adult; children, under ten years, $10; if body is removed 
there are refunds of $5 and $2.50. Iron or wooden enclosures 
for graves or plots are not allowed in this cemetery. George 
Schlesinger, President; George Pople, Secretary, and \V. T. 
James. Treasurer and Superintendent. 

FOUNTAIM CEMETERY. 

West New Brighton, S. T. "* 

office at cemetery. 

Fountain Cemetery is one of the small cemeteries on Staten 
Island, and is located on the Richmond Terrace, West New 
Brighton. It is reached by the Staten Island ferry to St. George. 
There are no plots in this cemetery. Prices of single graves, 
adult. $10 and $12: children, $4 and $8, according to location. 
Charges for reopening graves, adult, $5 ; children, $3.50 

FRIENDLY HAND CEiVlETERY. 

Brookeyn. N. Y. 
office at cemetery. 

This cemetery is one of a series of small ones located near 
Cypress Hills Cemetery and is reached by the same routes as the 
latter. 

FRIENDS CEiVlETERY. 

Prospect F'ark, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

OFFICE ON grounds. 

Sixteen acres comprise Friends Cemetery, which is located in 
Prospect Park, Fifteenth Street and Eleventh Avenue, South 



36 Le:onard'8 Manual of the Cemeteries. 



Brooklyn, about four miles from the Brooklyn Bridge. It is a 
Quaker burying ground and is reached from Fulton Street, 
Brooklyn, to Flatbush Avenue to Ninth Avenue, and through the 
latter thoroughfare to the cemetery entrance. The cemetery was 
founded in 1840 and opened in 1846. About 1,800 bodies have 
been interred, and there are about 30 interments per year. Price 
of single graves, 2.4x8x5.6 ft., $10, to members of Society of 
Friends only. The plots, which are not sold, admit of eight and 
ten graves. Cost of opening a grave is $6, and thirty-six hours' 
notice is required for same. Two bodies, as a rule, are allowed to 
a single grave. The cemetery is the property of the Monthly 
Meeting of the Society of Friends of New York and Brooklyn. 
James C. Stringham is Superintendent. Office, 725 E. 31st Street, 
Brooklyn. 

GRAVESEND CEMETERY. 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
This cemetery is situated on Van Sicklen Street, town of 
Gravesend, in the Borough of Brooklyn, and is about seventy-five 
years old. It comprises about five acres and is reached from 
Brooklyn via the trolley or steam lines to Gravesend. No new 
lots or graves are sold, interments being confined to persons 
owning lots or graves. Price of opening graves is $6 for adult 
and $5 for child. Twenty-four hours' notice required. William 
Donly, of Van Sicklen Street and Neck Road, Gravesend, is 
keeper of the cemetery. 

GREENLAWN CEMETERY. 

PiNEEAWN, L. I. 

OEEICE, BROAD EXCHANGE, NEW YORK CITY. 

Greenlawn Cemetery is one of eleven proposed cemeteries 
ov.ned by the Greenlawn Cemetery Association of this city, and 



I.Konard's Manual of the: Cemeteiriks. 2i7 

is located at Pinelawn Station, on the main line of the Long 
Island Railroad, 33 miles from the metropolis. The cemetery, 
which comprises 200 acres, was opened in 1899; is reached via 
the Long Island Railroad from Long Island City. Single graves, 
$7.50, exclusive of opening. Plots of eight graves from $60 to 
$500, according to location. Opening graves, $3. Abotit 500 in- 
terments have been made in this cemetery. 

GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 

GowANus Heights, South Brooklyn, N. Y. 

OFFICE, 71 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

Greenwood Cemetery was chartered April 18, 1838, was opened 
in 1840, and the first interment occurred September 5, of the 
latter year. It comprises 475 acres, and the art of the landscape 
artist has been exhausted in making this cemetery one of the 
most beautiful in the world. It is estimated that there are over 
325,000 bodies buried in this cemetery. It is located about four 
miles from Brooklyn Bridge, and two miles from Hamilton Ferry, 
South Brooklyn. It is reached by the cars from Hamilton, 
South, Fulton, Catherine and Wall Street ferries, the Brooklyn 
Bridge, and the Grand, Houston and Roosevelt Street ferries 
from Williamsburgh. Some of the prominent persons buried in 
it are : DeWitt Clinton, James Gordon Bennett, Henry J. Ray- 
mond, Horace Greely, Lester Wallack, Peter Cooper, Gen. T. S. 
Dakin, Gen. O. McK. Mitchell, Gen. Geo. Cullom, Maj.-Gen. H. 
W. Halleck, Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. Henry W. Slocum, 
Henry Bergh and ex-Gov. Leon Abbett of New Jersey, and a 
host of others. 

PRICES. 

Single graves (including the charge for the first opening) may 



38 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 

be procured as follows : 

For adults $31.00 

For children, under ten years of age 21.00 

Subsecjuent interments may be made subject to usual charge for 

reopening. 

CHARGES FOR OPENING GRAVES AND VAULTS. 

Graves for adults, usual depth, six feet, $6.00; seven feet, $6.50; 
eight feet, $7.00; nine feet, $7.50; ten feet, $8.50. 

Graves for boxes exceeding twenty-six inches in width, will be 
$1 extra. 

Graves for children, under ten years, usual depth, six feet. $5 ; 
eight feet, $5.50 ; ten feet, $6.50. 

Vaults under ground, $5 ; vaults in side hills, and above ground, 
$4. 

RECEIVING TOMB, CHARGES AND CONDITIONS. 

For adults, $35 ; for children, under ten years of age, $25. 

If removed to any lot or grave in the cemetery within three 
months, $25 will be returned for adults, and $17.50 for children. 

If within six months, $15 will be returned for adults, and $10 
for children. 

If removed fruin the cemetery within six months, $10 will be 
returned for adults, and $7.50 for children. 

It not removed within six months, nothing will be returned. If 
suffered to remain a longer period, it will be subject to the follow- 
ing charges: For three months, adults, $6; children, $3; for six 
months, adults, $12; children, $6. Charges for retentions must 
be paid in advance, at the office in New York, or at the cemetery. 
After thirty days default of payment of retention fee, bodies may 
be removed by said cemetery at its convenience, and interred in 
the lot reserved for that purpose. Bodies will not be allowed to 
remain in the tomb longer than one year, unless special arrange- 
ments are made with the cemeterv authorities. 



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Catacombs for permanent use may be procured in the Mauso- 
leum, in Vine-Dell, for $100 each. 

PLOTS. 

Each full lot contains 378 square feet. 

The form depends upon the peculiar surface of the ground and 
the character of the improvements contemplated. It may be 
square, oblong, circular, oval or irregular, according to circum- 
stances. The ordinary form is 14 ft. by 27 ft., which will admit 
of fifteen adult graves, in three rows of five graves each. 

The prices of full lots vary, generally from $700 to $2,500 each, 
depending upon the location. 

Small lots will be sold as follows : 

Lots 9 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in., which will admit of three adult graves, 
at $220 and upwards, according to location. 

Lots 12 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in., which will admit of four adult graves, 
at $280 and upwards, according to location. 

Lots 10 ft. by 19 ft., which will admit of six adult graves, at 
$385 and upwards, according to location. 

Orders for interments are received until 10.30 a. m., for after- 
noon of same day. If received after that hour for same day, one 
dollar extra will be charged. To avoid possible detention at the 
grave, orders should be given the day previous. 

The size of the burial case governs the number of interments 
to single graves, but the usual number is from four to six. 

GREENWOOD UNION CEMETERY. 

Rye. N. Y. 

This cemetery is located at Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., 

on the main line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford 

Railroad, and comprises about 60 acres. It is reached from the 

Grand Central Station. The cemetery belongs to the Rye Metho- 



40 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 

dist Episcopal Church, Single graves in public lots, adults, $8; 
children, $5, including opening. Opening graves, adult, $5 ; 
children, $3. Vault charges, adult, $15, and children, $7.50. 
Plots, $100 and upwards. 

GROVE CHURCH CEMETERY. 

New Durham, N. J. 

This small cemetery is situated on the Hudson County Boule- 
vard, one-half mile from Weehawken ferry, and it is reached by 
the Union Hill line of cars from either the Hoboken or Wee- 
hawken ferries. 

HEBREW CEMETERY. 

TOMPKINSVILLE, S. I. 

The Hebrew Cemetery is located on the Richmond Turnpike, 
near Clove Road, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and is reached 
by the Staten Island ferry to St. George. The office is at 11 
Elizabeth Street, Port Richmond. 

HAZELWOOD CEMETERY. 

Rah WAY, N. J. 

This cemetery is located in Rahway, N. J., one and three- 
quarter miles from the latter station of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road on the road to Plainfield, N. J. It was opened in i860 and 
comprises about 35 acres. There are about 1,500 bodies interred, 
and the average annual interments are about fifty. The price of 



Leonard's Manual of the: Cemeteries. 41 

single graves is $8, including opening. Plots 13x26, $20 and up- 
wards. Reopening grave, $5 ; one body to a single grave. Vault 
charges are, opening and closing, $2 and $3 per month. 

HOLY CROSS CEMETERY. 

Flatbush, New York City. 

OEEICE^ ST. JAMEs' R. C. CATHEDRAL, JAY AND CHAPEI, 
STS., BROOKLYN. 

Holy Cross Cemetery is located in the town of Flatbush, L. I., 
about six miles from Fulton ferry, and embraces 140 acres. It 
belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, and received 
its first interment in July, 1849. It is reached from Fulton ferry 
and the Brooklyn Bridge to Flatbush Avenue, thence to ceme- 
tery; also by Williamsburgh ferries and Nostrand Avenue cars. 
The estimated number of interments in this cemetery is 250,000, 
and the average per year is 7,500. Size of single graves is 2x8x8 
ft. and cost $12.12; temporary graves, adult, $7, and child, $3.62. 
Plots, 16x16 ft., $100, and admit of 16 graves. Reopening graves 
cost, adult, $5.12; child, $3.12. Four boxes to a single grave, and 
twenty-four hours' notice required for reopening. Vault charge 
is $1, and no body is kept longer than one week. No wooden 
enclosure of graves or plots allowed. John T. Hamilton is 
Superintendent. 

HOBOKEN CEMETERY, 

New Durham, N. J. 

OEEICE, 213 WASHINGTON 'ST., HOBOKEN, N. J. 

Hoboken Cemetery is located at New Durham, N. J., two and a 
half miles from Weehawken ferry, and four miles from Barclay 
Street and Christopher Street ferries, Hoboken. It is reached 



42 Leonard's Manual of the: Ci:mete:riES. 

by the same routes as Flower Hill Cemetery. Single graves, $20. 
Lots, 8xi6 ft., $96, and 75 cents per foot. Opening graves, adults, 
$5 ; child, $4. Vault charges, $15 for adult and $12 for child, with 
rebate for removal. Opening private vault, $3. 

HILLSIDE CEMETERY. 

PLAiN:PiEr.D, N. J. 

Hillside Cemetery is located on Park Avenue, Plainfield, N. J., 
on the main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and is 
reached by that road from either its Whitehall Street or Liberty 
Street ferries. It comprises 45 acres and was opened in 1886. 

HOLY NAME CEMETERY. 

West Side Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
oEFicE at cemetery. 

The Cemetery of the Holy Name, otherwise known as the 
Hudson County Catholic Cemetery, was founded in 1867, and the 
first interment was made in April of that year. It comprises 100 
acres, which are divided into sections, lots, plots and graves. The 
estimated number of interments is 60,000, and the average num- 
ber per year is about 4,000. This cemetery is reached from New 
York by the Pennsylvania Railroad ferries to Jersey City to 
Montgomery Street, thence direct to the cemetery, or by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad ta Marion Station, Jersey City. Price of 
single graves 2.3x7x7 ft., $10, $15, $20 and $25, according to loca- 
tion ; plots, $100 to $800, according to size and location. Three 
graves to a lot, and sixteen graves to a plot. Two adult bodies 
to a single grave, which may be sunk deeper at 50 cents per foot, 
and charge of reopening graves, adult, $5 ; child, $3. Twenty- 



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four hours' notice required to reopen a grave. Vault charges $1 
per month, and price of opening a grave. 

HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY. 

East Orange, N. J. 

OEEICE, 107 WASHINGTON ST.. NEWARK, N. J. 

The Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre is located in East Orange, 
N. ]., and is reached from Newark by the South Orange Avenue 
cars to Grove Street. Between sixty and seventy acres comprise 
the extent of the cemetery which is divided into sections alpha- 
batically arranged, and designated by names of saints. The-first 
interment was in 1857. The estimated number of interments is 
50,000, and about 2,000 bodies are interred yearly. Price of single 
graves, $7; choice graves, $12, exclusive of opening. Plots, six 
to twenty-four graves, $70 to $360, and upwards. This cemetery 
is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark. Michael 
Rowe is Superintendent. Price of opening graves, adult and 
children, $5, $4 and $3. Two adult or three children's bodies to a 
single grave. Twenty-four hours' notice required to reopen a 
grave. 

HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY. 

New RocheeeE. N. Y. 

ofeice at cemetery. 

The Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre is situated in New 
Rochelle, N. Y., and is reached by the New York, New Haven 
& Hartford Railroad from 'this city. It comprises about 200 
acres. Single graves 2x8x6 ft. cost $13, including opening. Plots 
of four graves, $30, and reopening $5. Three adult bodies to a 
single grave. 



44 Leonard's Manual of thk Cemeteries. 

HOLY TRINITY CEMETERY. 

Central Avenue, East New York, L. I. 
OFFICE on grounds. 

The Cemetery of the Holy Trinity or Raffeiner Cemetery, com- 
prises about thirty acres and was opened in 1852. It is situated 
on Central Avenue. East New York, was known for years as the 
"Catholic branch of the Evergreens Cemetery," and is owned by 
the German Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity on Montrose 
Avenue, Brooklyn. It is four miles from Grand and Roosevelt 
Street ferries to Williamsburgh, and is reached also by these 
routes by the cars from Fulton, Wall and South ferries to East 
New York. Single graves, adults, $9; under 12 years, $7, $6 and 
$5. Reserved graves, $10. Opening graves : For adults over 12 
years, $7; children from 9 to 12 years, $5; children from 3 to 9 
years, $4; children under 3 years, $3.50; still-born children, extra 
section, $2.50; reserved graves, first opening, $5. Graves for 
boxes are charged the half part more than the regular prices 
above mentioned. Philip Haslach is agent of the cemetery. 

JERSEY CITY CEMETERY. 

Newark Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 

OFFICE AT ENTRANCE, 437 NEWARK AVENUE. 

Jersey City Cemetery, situated on Newark Avenue, Jersey City, 
is reached by Newark Avenue from the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Jersey City, ferries. The cemetery was opened in 1831, and it is 
estimated that 17.000 bodies have been buried therein. The aver- 
age number of interments per year is 2=0. The price of single 
graves is $25; plots, $110 to $400. Right oi burial under one 
year, $3.50: with case, $5; adult, $10. Brick graves to hold two 



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bodies, $50. Reopening graves, $5 for adult, and $4 for a child 
under ten years. Vault charges: Adult, $10; child under ten 
years, $8, with rebates for removals. John M. Jones is President, 
and Arthur Bradshaw, Secretary and Superintendent. 

KENSICO CEMETERY. 

Kensico, N. Y. 
oeeice, 16 east 42d street, new york. 

Kensico Cemetery is one of the leading cemeteries of Greater 
New York. It is most picturesquely situated beyond Kensico, the 
first station north of White Plains, on the New York and Harlem 
Railroad, and within very few minutes ride from the city. The 
chief characteristic of the grounds is their elevation, and from 
plateaus ranging from 300 to 525 feet splendid views of Long 
Island Sound are obtained. The cemetery is reached by the Har- 
lem Division of the New York Central and Hudson River Rail- 
road, from the Grand Central Depot, and frequent trains, coupled 
with a very low excursion rate, render direct access to the cem- 
etery very short and convenient. Although the cemetery is only 
a few years old there have been over 6,000 interments, and they 
are increasing monthly. It comprises 400 acres, a small portion 
of which remains unimproved, but the improved portion is made 
up of beautifully laid out lots, plots and graves. Already costly 
monuments have been erected by plot owners, and one of the 
most handsome as well as substantial receiving tombs in the coun- 
try, with niches for 178 bodies, adorns a commanding spot in the 
cemetery. 

PRICES. 

All lots are sold at fixed rates, per square foot, the area varying 
from 100 feet to as many feet as may be required. Grass path 



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lots 40 cents, 60 cents, 80 cents, $1 and $1.25 per square foot. 
Open path lots $1 and $1.25 per square foot. Avenue lots at 80 
cents, $1 and $1.25 per square foot. Full lots contain 
20x20, 400 square feet. Lots, three graves. 10x10, 100 square feet, 
$40, $60, $80, $100 and $125. Corner posts for same, $7.50. Lots, 
four graves, 7x20, 140 square feet, $56, $84, $112, $140 and $175. 
Corner posts for same, $9. Lots, six graves, 10x20, 200 square 
feet, $80, $120, $160, $200 and $250. Corner posts for same, $9. 
Lots, eight graves, 13x20, 260 square feet, $156, $208, $260 and 
$325. Corner posts for same, $9. Lots, twelve graves, 20x20, 
400 square feet, $160, $240, $320, $400 and $500. Corner posts for 
same, $12. There are also ten-grave lots, ranging from $120 to 
$375. 

Opening graves in private lots for adults, usual depth, six feet. 
$5. For children under ten years of age, $4. 

In single graves for adults, including opening seven feet deep, 
$12. For children under ten years of age, $8. 

Special single graves in reserved lots, for adults, $20. For 
children under ten years of age, $15, including opening. Three 
bodies to a grave. 

Interments made in the receiving tomb are subject to the fol- 
lowing charges and conditions : A deposit of $25 is required for 
each adult, and for each child under ten years of age $18. Lot 
proprietors may have the temporary use of tomb without charge. 
For removal from receiving tomb within ten days, in the cem- 
etery, the full amount of deposit will be returned. For removal 
within three months : If an adult, there will be returned $20 ; if 
a child, there will be returned $14. For removal within six 
months: If an adult, there will be returned $13; if a child, there 
will be returned $8. 

If a body is not removed within six months, an extra charge of 
$2 for an adult, and $1 for a child, is made. A funeral car is run 
from the Grand Central Depot to the cemetery, making a special 



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train for fifty persons at $60. If the car is attached to a regular 
train, the charge is $40. For an ordinary passenger car attached 
to a regular train, $35 is charged. For the conveyance of a body 
by train to the cemetery, $1. 

James F. Sutton is President of the cemetery ; Allen S. Apgar, 
Vice-President; Samuel I. Knight, Secretary and Treasurer, and 
Reese Carpenter, Comptroller. 



LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

OEEICE, 293 MAIN STREET, PATERSON, N. J. 

This cemetery was opened in 1888, and embraces 200 acres. It 
is situated on the Passaic River, one and one-half miles south- 
west of Paterson, N. J., and is reached by the Erie, New York, 
Susquehanna & Western, and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
roads to Paterson, thence by cars to the main entrance. So far, 
there have been about 7,000 interments in the cemetery, and the 
average yearly number of interments is about 700. The lawn 
plan prevails in this cemetery. 

Price of single graves, 3.6x8x6 ft., adult, $15, inclusive of open- 
ing ; child's, $12. An extra charge of 50 cents per foot is made 
for sinking a grave beyond six feet to ten feet. The price of lots 
or plots range from $50 to $250 and upwards. Cost of reopening 
of a grave, adult, $6, according to depth; child's, $4. Three 
bodies, adults, allowed to a single grave, and tomb charges, adults, 
$12; child, under ten years of age, $10. Twenty-four hours' no- 
tice required to secure reopening of a grave. Henry R. Crews is 
Superintendent. 



The Kensico Cemetery 

OFFICE: 

\6 EAST 42d STREET, 

Telephone, 556 38th Street. New York. 



— ■ -e^ta^ 

T^HE KENSICO CEMETERY. Forty=three minutes from 
'- Grand Central Depot. The undersigned trustees nine years 
ago selected one of the most picturesque spots of ground in West- 
chester County for a large cemetery for the Greater New York. 
Since then it has been improved and developed so that it is now 
conceded to be the peer of any modern cemetery, and the public 
in general are invited to inspect the same. It is conceded by those 
who have built tombs, mausoleums and monuments there, that the 
same cost makes twice the showing on our slopes and mounds, all 
natural, than in any other cemetery around New York. At No. i6 
East 42d Street, the New York office, passes, time-tables and 
catalogues are cheerfully supplied. 

James F. Sutton, Wm. E. Dodge Stokes, Chauncey M. Depew 

Horace C. Duval, Allen S. Apgar, Elias N. Johnson, 

Phineas C. Lounsbury, Thos. D. Husted, Gardner Wetherbee 

Prentice Shethar, Samuel I. Knight, Joseph O. Miller 

Henry H. Landon, Orlando T. Carpenter, Reese Carpenter. 

OFFICERS: 

James F. Sutton, Samuel I. Knight, 

President. Sec'y and Treas. 

Ai,LEN S. Apgar, Reese Carpenter, 

Vice-President. Comptroller. 



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LINDEN HILL CEMETERY. 

East Williamsburgh, L. I. 

OEEICE,, 456 EAST HOUSTON STREET, NEW YORK. 

Linden Hill, or Methodist Episcopal Cemetery is situated on 
Metropolitan Avenue, East Williamsburgh, three miles from the 
Grand and Roosevelt Street ferries. It is reached by the North 
Second Street cars from' Grand Street, Houston Street and Roose- 
velt Street ferries, and by the Union Avenue cars from the Green- 
point ferries. The cemetery comprises about thirty acres, was 
opened in 1852, and the average number of interments per year 
is 1,000. The estimated number of bodies buried in the cemetery 
is 30,000. The size of single graves is 2x7x6 feet for adult, and 
4x6 for child, price $10 and $6. Plots 10x10 and 10x20 feet range 
from $30 to $100, and upwards. Cost of reopening a grave is $5 
for adult and $3 for child, and three adult bodies to a single 
grave. There are from four to eight graves to a plot, and 
twenty-four hours' notice required to reopen a grave. F. Haus- 
cheldt is Treasurer and Superintendent. 

LUTHERAN CEMETERY. 

Metropoeitan Avenue, Brookeyn, L. I. 

OEEICES AT CEMETERY AND AT 25 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK. 

Lutheran Cemetery was founded by the United /Lutheran 
churches of New York, and chartered March 22, 1852. It com- 
prises about 400 acres, was opened as a private cemetery in 1850, 
and is the leading German burying ground of the metropolis. It 
is located on Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, L. L, about 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemetekiks. " 51 

four miles from Grand Street and Roosevelt Street ferries, and 
is reached by the Long Island Railroad to Fresh Pond or Glen- 
dale, by the Williamsbiirgh ferries, and by all the Brooklyn lines 
via Myrtle Avenue. The estimated number of interments is 
250,000, with a yearly average of about 8,000. Single graves 3x7x6 
feet, public lots, are sold for $15 for adult and $9 for a child. 
Private lots : adult $5, child $3.50. Plots range from $70 and up- 
wards. There are nine graves to a plot and three adult bodies to 
a single grave. The vault charges are $1 for child and $2 for 
adult per month, with the price of a grave, which is refunded 
when a grave or plot is purchased in the cemetery. David 
Avenius is Superintendent. 

MACPELA CEMETERY. 

Fresh Pond, Brooklyn. L. L 

oeeice on grounds. 

Macpela Cemetery is a Jewish burial place about 40 acres in 
extent, and adjoins Cypress Hills Cemetery. It is reached by the 
same routes as the latter cemetery. The cemetery was founded in 
1855, and belongs to the congregation Temple El-Bethel, Sixty- 
third Street and Lexington Avenue, New York. The prices of 
graves are $25 and $30, and plots $200. Opening graves : adult $3 
and $5, children $1 and $2. 

MACPELAH CEMETERY. 

Xew Durham, N. J. 

OFFICES ON GROUNDS AND AT I08 WEST 25Tn ST., N. Y. 

This cemetery is located at New Durham. N. J., about four and 
one-half miles from the Hoboken ferries from Barclay and Chris- 



52 Li:onard's Manual, of th^ Ce:me:tkrie:s. 

topher Streets, and comprises ten acres. It is strictly a Protestant 
Cemetery, and is reached by the same routes as Hoboken Ceme- 
tery. The cemetery was opned in 1853 by the Third Reformed 
Presbyterian Church Society of New York, and there are over 
18,000 bodies buried in it. The average number of interments 
per year is 150. Price of graves $14 to $20. Lots, 10x16 feet, 
$100 and upward. Opening graves : adult, $4, child $4. No vault. 

MANOR CEMETERY. 

Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

This cemetery is located at Croton-on-the-Hudson, about 25 
miles from New York City, and is reached via the New York 
Central Railroad from Grand Central Station. The office is at 71 
Broadway, New York City. 

MAIMONIDES CEMETERY. 

Jamaica, L. L 
oi^fice: on Grounds. 

Maimonides Cemetery comprises about seven and one-half acres, 
and is located on the Jamaica Plank Road, Jamaica, L. I., and is 
reached by the cars from the Williamsburgh ferries to East New 
York, thence by electric cars to the cemetery. It is a Hebrew 
cemetery and about 1,700 bodies have been buried in its graves. 
Single graves $25; lots $275 to $500. Opening graves same as 
Macpelah Cemetery. John Benisch is Superintendent. 

MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY. 

Jamaica, L. I. 

office, 1286 BROADWAY, NE^W YORK. 
About 100 acres comprise Maple Grove Cemetery, which is lo- 
cated in the western part of the town of Jamaica, L. I., about 



Leonard's Manual of the: Cemeteries. 53 



seven miles from Long Island City. It is reached by trains of the 
Long Island Railroad from Long Island City to Maple Grove, or 
to Morris Park or Richmond Hill Station ; from Long Island City 
by Thompson Avenue from Newtown ; from Greenpoint by the 
Hoffman Boulevard, ancJ Williamsburgh by North Second Street. 
The cemetery was organized in February, 1875, and the first inter- 
ment was made February 12, 1876. About 6,000 interments have 
been made since that time. 

Price of single graves: adult $12, including opening; child,, 
under ten years, $8.50. Opening adult's grave costs $5 ; child's $4. 
Lots ranging from 7x18 ft. to 16x25 ft., and admitting from four 
to fifteen adult graves, vary in price from 75 cents to $2 per foot, 
according to location. For use of the receiving tomb, the charge 
of $12 is made for an adult, and $8.50 for a child ; but the money 
is refunded if the body is removed to the cemetery ground within 
thirty days. If the body be removed from the cemetery, only one- 
half the deposit will be returned. The sum of $2 per month is 
charged for keeping the body a longer period, but no body is al- 
lowed to remain longer than three months. For opening private 
vaults $5 is charged. Twenty-four hours' notice required for 
opening a grave. 

William S. Cogswell is President ; Ferris S. Thompson, Vice- 
President ; F. T. Adams, Secretary, and Charles S. Goodwin, 
Treasurer and Comptroller. 

MARBLE CEMETERY. 

Second Street, near Second Avenue, New York. 

OEEICE, 59 second street, new YORK CITY. 

This is an old and small cemetery situated on the north side of 
Second Street, near Second Avenue, New York, and comprises. 



54 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



about one-half a city block. The place is made up of vaults, and 
receives bodies largely for temporary purposes pending shipment. 
There have been about 1,200 interments in the cemetery, and the 
average number per year is about twenty, subject to the restric- 
tions of the Board of Health of New York. There are 270 vaults 
on the grounds. The sum of $10 is charge^ for opening a vault. 
For the use of the receiving tomb the sum of $10 per month is 
charged for the first two months and $.S per month thereafter. 

MORAVIAN CEMETERY. 

New Dorp, S. I. 

oEEicE AT cemetery. 

Moravian Cemetery is located at New Dorp, Staten Island, 
New York City, and comprises 84 acres. It is one of the very 
oldest cemeteries in the vicinity of New York, having been es- 
tablished as the Moravian Church Cemetery in 1742. The ceme- 
tery is supposed to have been opened to the general public about 
1820, and since that time about 15,000 interments have taken place. 
The average number of yearly interments is 250. The cemete]:y is 
reached by the Staten Island ferry to St. George, thence by 
Vanderbilt Avenue and Richmond Road to the main entrance. 
The distance is about five miles from St. George landing. In 
this cemetery is located the tomb of the Vanderbilt family, and 
among the prominent persons buried are : George William 
Curtis, Rev. Charles F. Deems, Col. Elliott F. Sheppard, William 
H. Vanderbilt and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Single 
graves $q for six feet deep, and $1 per extra foot. Opening 
graves $6, children $4 to $8, for six feet, and $1 for each addi- 
tional foot. Plots vary in price from 25 cents to $1 per square 
foot, according to size and location. Two or three bodies allowed 



Leonard's Manual of the: Ce:mi:te:rie:s. 55 

to a grave, and twenty-four hours' notice for reopening same. 
Vault charges are $20 for adult, and $15 for children under ten 
years for a period of six months and no longer. Peter P. Heal is 
President and N. J. Ostrander, Treasurer and Superintendent. 

MOUNT CALVARY. 

White: Plains, N. Y. 
oFFicK. re:ctory catholic church, white plains, n. y. 

This cemetery comprises about 70 acres, and is situated in North 
White Plains. It is only a few years old, and is reached from 
New York via White Plains, and the New York and Harlem 
Railroad. 

The price of single graves is $10 including opening. Plots are 
sold from $50 and upwards. Two bodies allowed to each grave. 

METHODIST CEMETERY. 

Middle Village, L. I. 

This cemetery is two acres in extent, is over 130 years old, and 
includes the site of the Second Methodist Church in America. 
There are about 500 bodies interred in it, and it is reached by the 
electric cars from Williamsburgh. 

MT. HOPE CEMETERY. 

Jamaica, L. I. 

offices on grounds and at 791 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 
new YORK city. 

This Jewish cemetery is made up of 12 acres, and is reached by 
the Long Island Railroad to Woodhaven, thence to East New 



56 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 

York, and by the Brooklyn Bridge and ferries, by cars to East 
New York. About 3,000 bodies are interred. Single graves $25, 
lots $125 to $500. Opening graves same as Macpelah. 

MT. HOPE CEMETERY. 

Mount Hope, Westchester County, N. Y. 

OEEICE, 380 sixth avenue, NEW YORK. 

Mount Hope Cemetery is situated at Mount Hope, Westchester 
County, five miles from the limits of the city of New York, and 
is reached by either the Sixth or Ninth x\ venue Elevated Railroad, 
and the New York & Putnam Railroad from One Hundred and 
Fifty-fifth Street and Eighth Avenue, or by the main line of the 
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad by way of Hastings, 
which is one mile distant. One hundred and eighty acres com- 
prise the grounds, and these are divided into sections, plots and 
lots, and so far over 1,300 interments have taken place. The 
average number of interments per year is about 150. The ceme- 
tery was founded in 1886, but it was not opened to the public 
until 1889. 

The price of graves, usual size and depth, 6 feet is $15 and $25, 
lots, 75 cents a square foot. Charge for reopening a grave is $5. 
Three adult bodies to a grave, and twenty-four hours' notice is 
usually required to reopen a grave. There is a vault charge of 
$20 for adult and $15 for child, but for parties intending to select 
plots, the use of the vault is free. 

MT. NEBOH CEMETERY. 

Fresh Pond Road, Cypress Hills, L. I. 

OEEICE, 22 BIBLE house, NEW YORK CITY. 

Mount Neboh Cemetery was founded in 1888, and opened the 
same year, and since that period over 2,500 interments have taken 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 57 

place in its plots and graves. It is one of the leading Jewish 
cemeteries of New York, comprises about 15 acres, and is located 
on the Fresh Pond Road, in the rear of the Cypress Hills Ceme- 
tery. It is reached by the same routes as Cypress Hills Cemetery, 
and is a well-kept and excellently laid out cemetery. 

The size of single graves is 7x4x6 ft., and cost $25, including 
opening and closing. Plots containing 320 square feet, range from 
$100 to $500, and usually admit of fourteen graves. One body is 
allowed to a grave, and opening charges are $5 for adult, and $3 
for a child under sixteen years. On three hours' notice a grave 
will be opened. 

ML OLIVET CEMETERY. 

Maspeth, L. I. 

OEEICE AT CEMETERY. 

Mount Olivet Cemetery was founded and opened to the public 
in 1850, and contains about 13,000 bodies. It is situated on Grand 
Street, Maspeth, L. I., three and a half miles from the Grand and 
Roosevelt Street ferries, 60 acres in extent, and is reached by the 
cars from the Williamsburgh ferries. The annual number of in- 
terments is about 2,000. 

The price of adult graves is $15 and $18, child $9.50 to $12. 
Grave without title, $7 for adult and $5 for child. The lots 
range from 9x11 to 18x22 ft., and cost from $65 to $200 and up- 
wards. Reopening of a grave costs $5 for adult, and $4 for child. 
Three adult bodies are allowed to a grave, and two to lot or 
plot graves when opened six feet deep. Twelve hours' notice re- 
quired for opening a grave. Vault charges require a deposit of 
$20 for each adult body, and $15 for each child under ten years. 
If the body is removed within thirty days $18 and $13 are re- 
turned. The regular vault charge is $2 per month. C. M. Cham- 
berlain is Superintendent. 



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MT. OLIVET CEMETERY, 

Elizabeth, N. J. 

OFFICE, RP:CT0RY ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, KLIZABETH- 
PORT^ N. J. 

This Catholic Cemetery was opened in 1870, and contains up- 
wards of 6,000 bodies. It is located on Madison Avenue, Eliza- 
beth, N. J., one mile from the city line, and is reached by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, or Central Railroad of New Jersey to 
Elizabeth. It is about 45 acres in extent, and the yearly inter- 
ments average 400. 

Price of single graves, $7 ; child's grave, $5. Lots vary in price 
according to location. Charges for reopening a grave are $5 for 
adult, and $3 for a child. Two adult, or three children's bodies 
allowed to each grave. 

MT. PLEASANT CEMETERY. 

Westchester County, N. Y. 

OFFICE, 47 west 42D STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 

One of the newest and most beautiful of the cemeteries of New 
York City is Mount Pleasant Cemetery, which is located near 
Kensico Village, Westchester County, N. Y. This cemetery is only 
45 minutes from the Grand Central Depot, New York & Harlem 
Railroad, and it has been laid out on the park plan by the leading 
landscape artists. It is in every way a modern cemetery. It is 
not a profit-sharing corporation, all its income above the money 



6o Leonard's Manual of the: CkmKTKriKS. 

expended for maintenance and improvement being devoted to 
philanthropic purposes. 

Family plots of lOO square feet and upwards are offered for the 
present from 50 cents to $2 per square foot, depending on the 
location. Particular attention is directed to the fact that, except- 
ing moderate charges for whatever special work may be desired, 
the initial cost will be the final cost. No taxes are assessable 
upon plot owners, and the miaintenance of the cemetery is incum- 
bent upon the corporation for all time. Plot owners are, how- 
ever, required to mark lots with corner stones within six months 
of date of purchase. Single graves are sold for $12. Three 
bodies to a grave. The charge of digging graves is $5. Land 
is also sold to societies in half-acre plots at special prices. A 
very unique receiving tomb is now nearing completion, for the 
use of which the usual charges with rebates will be made. 
Edward A. Petit is Controller of the cemetery and C. A. Long, 
Superintendent. 

MiT. PLEASANT CEMETERY. 

BellEvillk Ave:nue, Newark, N. J. 

OFFICE, 791 BROAD STREET, NEWARK, N. J. 

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is one of the oldest, and at the same 
time most beautiful cemeteries of Newark, N. J., and is located on 
Belleville Avenue in that city. It was founded January 24, 1844, 
and dedicated June i8th of the same year, and it is estimated that 
there are about 15,000 bodies interred within its' limits. The ceme- 
tery comprises 50 acres. There are no single graves. 

Lots and plots 25x25 ft. range in price from $300 to $1,000, ac- 
cording to location. There are twelve graves to each lot, and 
twenty-four graves to a plot. The price of opening lot and plot 



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graves range from $2 to $12, and one adult body is allowed to 
each grave. Twenty-four hours' notice is required to open a 
grave. Charges for receiving tomb are: For each adult, a de- 
posit of $30 will be required. If removed within fifteen days 
$25 will be returned. If removed to any lot in the ceme- 
tery within three months $20 will be returned. If removed to any 
lot in the cemetery within six months $15 will be returned. If 
removed from the cemetery within six months $10 will be re- 
turned. For each child, twelve years of age or under, a deposit 
of $20 will be required. If removed within fifteen days $15 will 
be returned. If removed within three months $10 will .be re- 
turned. If removed within six months $5 will be returned. If 
not removed within six months, nothing will be returned. Extra 
charge for use of tomb $2 per month. 

ML ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. 

Black Stump, Flushing, L. I. 

OFFICE, RECTORY ST. MICHAEL's CHURCH, FLUSHING, L. L 

This is an old cemetery and is located at Blackstump, between 
Flushing and Jamaica, L. I., and comprises about four acres in 
extent. The price of adult single graves 2.6x7x6 £t., usual size, 
is $8, including opening ; child's, $7, and reopening grave is, adult 
$3 ; child $2 ; plots $25 and upwards. Two bodies to a single 
grave. There is an average of about fifty interments in the ceme- 
tery every year. 

THE MORGUE. 

Foot of East 26th Street, New York City. 

The Morgue of the city of New York is located at the foot of 
East Twenty-sixth Street, and has long been a place of peculiar 



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importance. It is the temporary depository for the unclaimed 
dead of the metropolis, and over 100,000 bodies have been re- 
ceived there since its opening many years ago. All bodies of per- 
sons who die in the public institutions of the Department of 
Charities and Correction of the city of New York are sent there 
preliminary to being buried in the City Cemetery or claimed by 
relatives or friends. All persons who die on the streets, are, as a 
rule, removed to the Morgue, as well as those dying in the differ- 
ent hospitals, which are unclaimed. Unclaimed bodies are usually 
kept forty-eight hours before burial in the City Cemetery. The 
number of bodies received at the Morgue yearly is about 8,000. 
Funerals take place from the Morgue every day, and in order to 
obtain a body, the regular burial permit from the Board of Health 
must invariably be presented. 

MT. ZION CEMETERY. 

Lauree Hiel, L. I. 

OFFICES AT CEMETERY AND I47 PARK ROW, N. Y. CITY. 

This is a Jewish cemetery and is located at Laurel Hill, New- 
town, L. I. It is reached by the electric cars from Long Island 
City, or by carriage the same routes as to Cavalry Cemetery. 
Adult graves, $10 ; children, one to thirteen years, $6 ; under one 
year, $3. Plots, sixteen adult graves, $150 and upwards. Opening 
graves, adult. $3, children $2 and $1. 

NATIONAL CEMETERY. 

Cypress Hiels, Jamaica Avenue. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
office on grounds. 

This is a national cemetery and belongs to the United States 
Government. Its care and maintenance are vested with the Quar- 
termaster's Department of the U. S. Army, and any soldier or 



Li:onard's Manual of the: Cemeteries. 63 

sailor of the civil war honorably discharged from service is en- 
titled to a burial in the cemetery free of cost. The cemetery 
comprises fifteen and one-half acres and is divided into two parts, 
the "upper cemetery" and "lower cemetery," and the former lies 
within the enclosure of Cypress Hills Cemetery. The "lower ceme- 
tery" adjoins Salem Fields Cemetery on Jamaica Avenue. The 
"upper cemetery" was opened in 1862, and no more bodies are 
buried in its graves. The total number of bodies buried in this 
part is 3,928. There are about 1,800 bodies in the "lower ceme- 
tery," and in this portion there are about 80 interments per year. 
No graves are sold. Friends of soldiers or sailors buried in the 
cemetery may erect headstones, and the grave allotments are 
4x8x6 ft. Twelve hours' notice required to secure the opening of 
a grave. The presentation of the discharge of a deceased soldier 
or sailor to the Superintendent will insure burial. E. Tauben- 
speck is Superintendent. 

NEW UNION FIELDS. 

Newtown, L. I. 

OI^EICE AT CEMETERY. 

New Union Fields Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery 21 acres in 
extent, and is located in Newtown, L. I. It is reached by the same 
routes as Macpelah Cemetery, and is owned by the latter corpora- 
tion. Several hundred bodies are buried in this cemetery. E. 
Beck is Superintendent. 

NEW YORK CEIVIETERY. 

Hackensack, N. J. 

OFEICE AT CEMETERY. 

New York Cemetery comprises about seven acres, and is located 
in Hackensack, N. J. It was opened for interments in 1850 by 



64 Li:onard's Manual of thk Ceme:terie:s. 

the Free Reformed Church of Hackensack, and held by that body 
until July 8, i8gi, when it formally passed into the hands of the 
New York Cemetery Association, its present owners. It is 
reached from Hackensack, N. J., and by the New Jersey & New 
York and the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroads to 
that place from New York. 

Prices of single graves $12 for adult, and $7 for a child, includ- 
ing opening. Reopening adult grave is $5, and child under twelve 
years, $3. The depth of single graves is six feet for adult, and 
five feet for child. Vault charges are $20 for adult, and $15 for 
a child. There are about 3,500 bodies buried in this cemetery. 

NEW YORK BAY CEMETERY. 

Oce:an Ave:nue:, Je:rse:y City, N. J. 
OFFICII at cemi^tkry. 

New York Bay Cemetery is one of the largest Protestant bury- 
ing grounds in Hudson County, N. J., and is located on Ocean 
and Chapel Avenues, Jersey City, N. J. It is, besides, one of the 
oldest cemeteries in the vicinity of New York, having been opened 
in 1849. Over 50,000 bodies have been interred in its plots and 
graves, and the number of annual interments is about 800. The 
cemetery comprises about 100 acres sloping to the waters of the 
bay. It is reached by trains of the Central Railroad of New 
Jersev to Greenville, Jersey City, and by Grand Street and Ocean 
Avenue cars from the Pennslvania ferry. 

Size of single graves 2.6x7x6 ft., and cost $20 and $25, accord- 
ing to location. Lots 8x10 ft. range in price from $100 to $150, 
and admit of four graves. Two interments, adult, to a single 
grave, and cost of reopening is $5 for adult and $4 for a child. 
Twenty-four hours' notice necessary to secure opening of a 
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Lewis E. Wood is President of the cemetery; Edward Hoos, 
Vice-President ; James G. Hasking, Secretary and Treasurer, and 
Thomas W. Tilden, Superintendent. 

NYACK RURAL CEMETERY. 

Nyack, N. Y. 

oeeice^ no. 8 broadway^ nyack^ n. y. 

This is a comparatively new cemetery and is located just out- 
side of Nyack, N. Y. It is reached by the Northern Railroad of 
New Jersey to Nyack. It comprises about 80 acres, and several 
hundred bodies have been interred in its plots and graves. Price 
of single graves $8 ; plots $50 and upwards. Opening graves $5, 
and one body to a grave. 

OAK HILL CEMETERY. 

Nyack, N. Y. 
oei^ice at cemetery. 

Oak Hill Cemetery is situated at Nyack, Rockland County, N. 
Y., and is reached by the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, or 
by ferry from Tarrytown, N. Y. It was founded in 1848 and 
opened in July of the same year. There have been about 6,500 
bodies interred, and the average number of interments per year is 
175. Single graves are sold at $13 for adult, $10 for children 
under ten years, and $7 for infants, inclusive of opening. Plots 
vary from 25 cents to $1 per foot, according to location. Opening 
of graves cost $5 for adult, and $4 for child. Opening vaults 
under ground is $4, and tombs in side hills and above ground, $3. 
Receiving tomb charges are, for opening tomb $1 ; for each child 



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under ten years $1 per month, and for each person over ten 
years $2 per month. 

OAKLAND CEMETERY. 

YONKERS, N. Y. ^" 

OFl^ICE^ 57 WARBURTON AVENUE, YONKERS, N. Y. 

This cemetery comprises about 70 acres, and is located on Ash- 
burton Avenue and Walnut Street, Yonkers, N. Y. It is reached 
by the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, and New- 
York & Putnam Railroad, and also by the foad from Kingsbridge,. 
New York City, by Central Avenue, and other avenues leading ta 
Yonkers. It was founded in 1866, and opened to the public in the 
fall of 1867. About 3,000 bodies have been interred, and the an- 
nual interments average 150. Single graves, adult, are 2x6x6 ft., 
child's, 2x4x6 ft., and cost, including opening and closing, $10 and 
$7 in Nepperhan plot, and $15 and $10 in Terrace plot; Woodside 
plot, adult, $18 ; child, $12. The sum of $1 is charged for sinking 
grave extra foot in depth. Lots vary in size from 14x27 ft. and 
upwards, but the standard size contains 378 superficial feet. Lot 
prices range from $50 to $600, according to location, and in lots 
14x27 ft. twelve interments are allowed. Opening and closing 
adult graves $6, and a child's $5. Two bodies allowed to a grave. 
Receiving tomb charges are $25 for adult and $20 for child under 
ten years. Edward Weston, President; Robert P. Getty, Vice- 
President; J. Christy Bell, Jr., Secretary, and J. Harvey Bell, 
Treasurer. 

OCEAN VIEW CEMETERY. 

Borough of Richmond, New Y^ork City, 
ofeice, 220 broadway^ new york. 

Ocean View Cemetery, because of its exceptional location, the 
grandeur of its ocean view, the picturesqueness of its natural 



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scenery, and its construction on the modern park plan, stands in 
the foremost rank of modern cemeteries, and is destined to be the 
most beautiful Necropolis of the city of New York. 

Ocean View Cemetery is situated on Staten Island, less than 
one hour from the City Hall, New York. It is reached either by 
the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, to Brendan Station, or 
by the Midland Electric Railroad to Richmond ; carriages may go 
via the Boulevard, Amboy Road or Fresh Kill Road ; all roads 
are macadamized. Ferries connect with Manhattan, Brooklyn, 
Berg-en Point, N. J., Elizabethport, N. J., and Perth Amboy, N. J. 

Ocean View Cemetery was organized October i6th, 1899, and 
improvements were begun in May, 1900 The first interment was 




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made in March, 1900, since which time many more have been 
made. The Cemetery comprises with its annex 442 acres, which 
are being laid out on the most modern plan, under the direct su- 
pervision of Mr. Daniel W. Langton, Secretary of the Society of 
American Landscape Architects. The grounds were selected with 
great care, special attention being given to the character of the 
soil, the topography of the land, abundance of beautiful trees, and 
magnificent ocean view ; they were afterwards approved by the 
Board of Health of New York City as suitable for a modern 



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cemetery. Its advantages over the older cemeteries are location, 
easy accessibility, natural quietude, together with the protection of 
city police and lights. Many thousands of dollars have already 
been expended in improvements, and many hundreds of thousands 
will be expended in the future. Every lot will have perpetual 
care, witliout additional cost, provided for by a special fund set 
aside for that purpose. 

PRICES. 

Avenue lots, 10x10 $60 and upwards 

Gravel path lots, 10x10 50 and upwards 

Grass path lots, 10x10 45 and upwards 

Lots may be bought, either for cash or in installment of 50 
cents per week and upwards. Single graves for adults $10; chil- 
dren under ten years of age $7 ; opening graves in private lots $5 ; 
for children under ten years of age $4. 

Charles C. Dickinson is President of the cemetery; Walter H. 
Bunn, Vice-President and Comptroller; William J. Van Vleck, 
Treasurer ; Louis W. Groat, Secretary ; and John G. Pearse, As- 
sistant Secretary and Treasurer. 

OHEB SCHALOM CEMETERY. 

South Orange Avenue, Newark, N. J. 

OEEICE AT CEMETERY. 

Oheb Schalom Cemetery is a small Jewish cemetery on South 
Orange Avenue, Newark, N. J., one and one-half acres in extent, 
was opened in 1866, and is reached by South Orange Avenue in 
that city. There have been about 500 interments, and about 15 
interments take place each year. Size of graves 2x7x6 ft., and 
cost $50, plots 4x14 ft., $100. The sum of $3 is charged to open a 
grave, and one body allowed to each grave. There is no vault. 
The congregation of Oheb Schalom on Prince Street, Newark, 
owns the cemetery. 



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PATERSON AND FAIRLAiWN CEMETERIES. 

Paterson, N. J. 

Paterson Cemetery is situated on Goffle Road, and Fairlawn 
Cemetery on Ridgewood Road, Paterson, N. J., and both ceme- 
teries are the property of Abraham Vermeulen of that city. The 
former comprises two acres divided into three sections, while the 
latter has 19 acres, and 18 sections. Paterson Cemetery was 
opened in 1869, and Fairlawn the early part of 1894. Both ceme- 
teries are reached by the Erie and New York, Susquehanna & 
Western Railroads to Paterson. The average number of inter- 
ments per year in Paterson Cemetery is 100. Single graves in 
Fairlawn Cemetery are $10 for adult, and $7 for child. Plots, 
$50 to $150. Cost of opening graves $4 for adult, and $3 for child. 
Three bodies to a single grave. No interments take place in these 
cemeteries on Sunday except in cases of contagious disease. 
There is no vault. 

PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

OFFICE ON GROUNDS. 

This cemetery is the property of the Presbyterian Church of 
Paterson, N. J., and is located at Market and Vine Streets. No 
graves are sold. Cost of opening a grave is $4. 

PELHAM CEMETERY. 

City Island, Ne:w York City, 
office), main strfet, city island. 

This cemetery is located on Lafayette Avenue, City Island, New 
York City, and is reached from Bartow, on the Harlem River 



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branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. 
James Ketcham is Superintendent 

QUAKER CEMETERY. 

Newtown, L. I. 

Quaker Cemetery is situated in Newtown, L, 1., and comprises 
one acre. It is reached by the North Second Street cars from 
Williamsburgh ferries. Over 500 bodies have been interred in 
this cemetery. 

RAFFEINER CEMETERY. 

Central Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

SEE HOLY trinity CEMETERY. 

RAHWAY CEMETERY. 

Rahway, N. J. 

OFFICE ON GROUNDS. 

This cemetery was formerly known as Riverside Cemetery, and 
is situated on St. George's Avenue, Rahway, N. J. It is a very 
old cemetery, comprises about nine acres in extent, and belongs 
to the First Presbyterian Church of Rahway. It is reached by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad to Rahwav. Several thousand bodies are 
buried in this cemetery. Single graves cost $10, $12 and $15, and 
include opening. Opening a grave is $5. Plots 50 cents per 
square foot, and one body to each grave. 



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RIDGEFIELD CEMETERY. 

RiDGEi^iELD, Bkrgi^n County, N. J. 

oi^^ice: at ce:m eatery. 

Ridgefield Cemetery is the property of the Reformed Dutch 
Church of Ridgefield, N. J., and is over lOO years old. It com- 
prises about 15 acres, and is reached by the Northern Railroad of 
New Jersey. Graves cost $10; opening: $5. Lots, $50 to $150, ac- 
cording to location. Over 2,000 bodies are buried in this ceme- 
tery. 

ROCKLAND CEMETERY. 

Sparkill, N. Y. 

Rockland Cemetery is one of the most beautiful cemeteries in 
the vicinity of New York, and is situated on the west side of the 
Hudson, in Rockland County. New York. On its southeast lies 
Piermont, with Sparkill on its southwest. It is a part of the 
Palisade range, which rises at this point 500 feet high. On the 
east, facing the Tappan-Zee, it presents a bold front, covered with 
native forest. From the entrance gate, near its southwest corner, 
it rises in gentle slopes, with curves, terraces and plateaus, nu- 
merous and diversified. The cemetery, containing about 200 acres, 
was founded in 1847. About 3,000 bodies are interred in the 
cemetery. This cemetery is reached by the Northern Railroad of 
New Jersey to Sparkill Station, and Tappan Station on the West 
Shore Railroad. Single graves $12 to $20, according to location. 
Lots 400 square feet, $200 and upwards, and admitting fifteen 
graves. Opening charges for grave, $5 ; three bodies to a grave. 
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•$12 to $20, and bodies may remain three months. Rebates on 
vault charges. No wooden, iron or hedge enclosures allowed. 
Martine and Sons are the Superintendents. 

ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

This cemetery is situated just outside the city of Paterson, N. 
J., and comprises over 20 acres. It was opened in 1867, and over 
12,000 bodies are buried in its plots and graves. The yearly inter- 
ments average 600. It is reached by the Erie, and New York, 
Susquehanna & Western Railroads to Paterson, thence by two 
trolley lines. Lots are not sold to persons living outside the city 
-of Paterson, except in cases where relatives wish to be buried 
with those who die in that city. 

Single graves, usual size, $8, and plots containing four graves 
'$40 to $50. Opening a grave is $3, and two bodies allowed to each 
.grave. No vault. 

ROSEDALE CEMETERY. 

Orange, N. J. 

Rosedale Cemetery is one of the oldest and most attractive 
•cemeteries in Essex County, N. J., and is situated in the city of 
Orange, and townships of West Orange and Montclair. It con- 
tains, about 90 acres. The distance from the Orange entrance to 
the Montclair entrance is one mile. About 15,000 interments have 
taken place in this cemetery, and the average number of inter- 
ments annually is 600. The lawn plan prevails in the newer por- 
tion of this cemetery, and all lot enclosures are consequently pro- 
Jhibited. 



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Single graves 3x7x6 ft., cost from $5 to $15. Opening graves, $5 
adult ; child, $3. Three to ten graves are contained in a lot 10 feet 
square to 15x20 feet. Two bodies are allowed to a grave, and 
twenty-four hours' notice required to reopen same. Lots, 75 
cents to $1.25 per square foot. Receiving tomb charges are $20 
for adult and $12 for child, with a rebate, according to period of 
time body is kept, but in warm weather boxes are required to be 
sealed. 

ST. AGNES CEMETERY. 

Borough of Richmond, Nkw York City. 

0?I?ICE:, 220 BROADWAY^ NE^W YORK. 

St. Agnes' Cemetery, lying side of the Ocean View Cemetery, 
commands a most beautiful view of the ocean, and being laid out 
on the modern park plan, with flowers, artificial lake;, and all the 






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Other decorative features of the landscape architect's art, is des- 
tined to be one of the leading cemeteries of New York City. St. 
Agnes' Cemetery was organized October i6th, 1899, and improve- 
ments were begun in May, 1900. Already many interments have 
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which are being laid out on the most modern park plan, under the 
direct supervision of Mr. Daniel W. Langton, Secretary of the 
Society of American Landscape Architects. The grounds were 
selected with great care, special attention being given to the 
character of the soil, topography of the land, abundance of beauti- 
ful trees, and magnificent ocean view, and were afterward ap- 
proved by the Board of Health of New York City as suitable 
for a modern cemetery. Its advantages over the older cemeteries 
are location, easy accessibility, natural quietude, together with the 
protection of city police and lights. Many thousands of dollars 
have already been expended in improvements, and many hundreds 
of thousands more will be expended in the future. Every lot will 
have perpetual care, without additional cost, provided for by a 
special fund set aside for that purpose. 

PRICES. 

Avenue lots, loxio $60 and upwards 

Gravel path lots, 10x10 50 and upwards 

Grass path lots, 10x10 45 and upwards 

Lots may be bought either for cash or on installment of 50 
cents per week and upwards. Single graves for adults, $10; chil- 
dren under ten years of age, $7; opening graves in private lots, 
$5 ; for children under ten years of age, $4. 

Charles C. Dickinson is President of the Cemetery ; Walter H. 
Bunn, Vice-President and Comptroller; William J. Van Vleck, 
Treasurer ; Louis W. Groat, Secretary ; and John G. Pearse. As- 
sistant Secretary and Treasurer. 

ST. JOHN^S CEMETERY. 

MiDDT.E Village, L. I. 

St. John Cemetery was opened in 1880 by Bishop Loughlin of 
Brooklyn, and was intended as an annex to the Holy Cross Ceme- 
tery in Flatbush. It is located in Middle Village, L. I., and con- 



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tains 170 acres, divided into sections, plots and graves. The esti- 
mated number of interments that have been made is 10,000. There 
are about 250 interments per year. Single graves 2x9x8 ft., $12 ; 
temporary graves. $3.62 ; plots, $50 and upwards. Opening grave 
charges are, adult, $5.12, and child, $3.12. The vault charge is $1^ 
and no body is kept longer than one week. John McCloskey is 
Superintendent. 

ST. JOHN'S CEMETERY. 

Orange, N. J. 

OFFICE, ST. John's church rectory, orange, n. j. 

This is a small Roman Catholic Cemetery about 50 years old,, 
and is located alongside St. John's Church, White Street, Orange,. 
N. J. It is reached by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and 
Erie Railroads, or from Newark by trolley cars. There is a con- 
siderable number of bodies buried in it, and the interments each 
year aggregate about fifty. Graves 2x6x7 feet, $15, for adult and 
$12 for child. Plots containing six graves, $75. Opening graves^ 
adult, $5, child, $3. 

ST. JOHN'S CEMETERY. 

Yonkers, N. Y. 
OFFICE, ST. John's rectory, yonkers, n. y. 

St. John's is a very old cemetery, and is located about one mile 
from the station of the New York Central & Hudson Railroad 
and New York & Putnam Railroad, in Yonkers, on the Saw Mill 
River Road. Single graves cost $12. Opening, $5. 



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ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY. 

Yonke:rs, n. y. 

Oi^FlCK^ YONKKRS^ N. Y. 

St. Joseph's Cemetery is situated on the Saw Mill River Road^ 
on the Northern line of Yonkers, N. Y., about three miles from 
the station of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, 
and near the Neppera Park Station of the New York & Putnam 
Railroad. It contains 25 acres and was opened in 1877. About 
4,000 interments have been made in the cemetery, and the average 
number of interments per year at present is 250. Single graves,. 
$8 ; children, $5 ; plots, $28, $40, $100, $160 ; two bodies to a grave. 
Opening grave, adult, $6 ; child, $4. 

ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. 

Rahway, N. J. 
ofi^ice;, ST. Mary's r. c. church, rah way, n. j. 

This cemetery adjoins Hazelwood* Cemetery on the north in 
Rahway, N. J., and was opened in i860. It comprises one and one- 
half acres and belongs to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in 
that place. 

Single graves are $10, including opening, which is $5. Plots la 
feet square, $15. One body to a grave, and one day's notice to re- 
open same. 

ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. 

CUFTON, S. I. 

OFFICE AT CE:me:TERY. 

St. Mary's Cemetery comprises seven acres, and is located at 
Parkinson Avenue, Clifton, Staten Island. It was opened to the 



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public January i, 1862, and there have been about 4,000 inter- 
ments. There are about 100 interments per year. 

Single graves 2x7x6, $7; plots 8x16 ft. containing six graves, 
$50. Opening graves, box $5 ; coffin $4, and two bodies to a grave. 
Vault charge $1 for over night ; but a body is never kept in the 
vault longer than two days. Twelve hours' notice to open a grave, 
and two bodies to a grave. 

ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. 

Yonke:rs, N. Y. 

OFFICE, RFCTORY ST. MARY's CHURCH. YONKERS, N. Y, 

St. Mary's Cemetery is located tv;'o and one-half miles from 
Yonker s Station of the New York Central Railroad and about 
one-half mile from Nepperhan Station on the Putnam branch of 
the same road. It is a small and old burying ground. Single 
graves $10, and opening $5. 

ST. MICHAEL'S CEMETERY. 

Astoria, L. I. 

•OFFICE AT CEMETERY AND 225 WEST NINETY-NINTH 
STREET^ NEW YORK CITY. 

This Protestant Episcopal Cemetery is one of the oldest in the 
vicinity of New York, having been founded in 1850 by Rev. Thos. 
M. Peters of this city, and comprises about 100 acres. It is located 
on Flushing Avenue and Bowery Bay Road, Newtowm L. I., and 
is reached by either the East Thirty-fourth Street, or Ninety- 
second Street ferries. It is estimated that there have been over 



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40,000 interments. The number of interments per year is about 
1,500. Single graves, $16 for adult, and $12 for child. Lots, $30 
and upwards. Opening grave is $5 for adult and $4 for a child. 
Opening tomb charges, $16 adult, and $12 child. If body be re- 
moved to a single grave in the public ground, no further charge 
will be made. If removed to a private lot, procured within three 
months, $4.50 will be refunded for an adult, and $2.50 for a child. 
If removed from the cemetery the charge of $2 per month for an 
adult, and $1.50 for a child will be made in addition to $1 for re- 
moval. If not removed within six months the body will be in- 
terred in a grave prepared for that purpose. No enclosures of any 
kind are allowed, and twenty-four hours' notice is required to 
open grave. 

ST. MONICA'S CEMETERY. 

Jamaica, N. Y. 

St. Monica's Cemetery is located on Washington Street,* Ja- 
maica, Borough of Queens, New York City, and is reached via the 
Long Island Railroad and trolley lines. About 2,000 bodies have 
been interred in this cemetery, and the annual interments about 
25. The office is at 42 Washington Street, Jamaica. 

ST. NICHOLAS CEMETERY. 

Passaic, N. J. 

St. Nicholas Cemetery is situated on the Lodi Road, one mile 
outside of Passaic, N. J., and comprises about 15 acres. It is 
reached by the Erie Railroad to Passaic. About 1,000 interments 
have been made, and the price of a single grave is $10, regular 
size and depth. Plots of four graves, $25. Opening grave $4, and 
two bodies to a grave. None but parishioners of St. Nicholas 
Church or members of their family can bury in this cemetery. 



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ST. PETER'S CEMETERY. 

Jerse:y City, N. J. 

office:, CE:METI;RY OF THE HOLY NAMF, WEST SIDE AVE- 
NUE_, JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

St. Peter's Cemetery is the old Catholic burying ground of 
Jersey City, and was opened in 1857. It is situated on Tonnele 
Avenue, Jersey City, four blocks north of Newark Avenue, and 
comprises about five acres. Lots or graves have not been sold in 
this cemetery for the last 30 years. It was founded by fifteen 
Catholics of Jersey City, who turned over the property in 1873 to 
Archbishop Corrigan, who was then Bishop of Newark. The 
graves are 2.3x7x7 ft., and plots 7x9 feet. The plots originally 
sold for $15, and graves $5. Prices for opening graves, removals 
and rules, are the same as prevail in the Cemetery of the Holy 
Name, Jersey City, being under the same management. 

ST. PETER'S CEMETERY. 

West New Brighton, S. I. 

OFFICE, RECTORY ST. PETER's R. C. CHURCH, WEST NEW 
BRIGHTON, S. I. 

St. Peter's Cemetery is one of the oldest Catholic Cemeteries on 
Staten Island, and belongs to the St. Peter's Church, West New 
Brighton. It comprises about eight acres, divided into sections, 
lots and plots, and it is estimated that there are over 2,500 bodies 
buried in it. Price of single graves, 2.2x7x6 ft., $15 for coffin and 
$16 for box, including opening. Plot containing four graves, $50. 
Reopening grave is $5, and three bodies to a grave. Twenty-four 
hours' notice required to open a grave. 



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ST. PETER'S CEMETERY. 

Westchester, New York City. 

Located on Westchester Avenue, Westchester, New York City, 
adjoining St. Peter's Episcopal Church, to which it belongs. It is 
quite an old burial ground and contains several hundred bodies. 

ST. RAYMOND'S CEMETERY. 

Westchester, N. Y. 

OFEICE AT CEMETERY. 

This Catholic cemetery is situated in Westchester, N. Y., com- 
prises thirty-five and three-fourths acres and is reached by the 
Harlem River Branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford 
Railroad from East 129th Street, New York, or by electric cars 
from East 129th Street and Third Avenue. It is also reached by 
carriage by Westchester Avenue in the Annexed District. The 
cemetery is about 15 years old, artistically laid out into sections, 
plots and graves, and promises to be one of the most attractive 
Catholic burying grounds of the metropolis. Single graves cost 
$15, including opening. Plots $100 and upwards. Sixteen grave 
plots $600. Reopening graves is $6 for adult, $5 for children 
under 14 years, and $3 under seven years. Three bodies, as a rule, 
to each grave. Twenty-four hours' notice required for opening a 
grave. William Walsh is Superintendent. 

SALEM FIELDS CEMETERY. 

Jamaica Plank Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
OFFICE AT cemetery. 

Salem Fields is by far the leading and most important Jewish 
cemetery in the vicinity of New York. It is one of the most 



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beautiful in the world because of the lavish care and labor be- 
stowed on its maintenance and improvement, and therein are lo- 
cated some of the most artistic as well as costly monuments 
and family vaults to be found in any cemetery. Within 
its limits are the family plots and tombs of the wealthiest and 
most influential Hebrew residents of the metropolis, and the 
jealous interest taken in its improvement and embellishment by its 
owners is amply shown by its attractive and impressive appear- 
ance. The cemetery is located on the Jamaica Plank Road, 
Brooklyn, and lies opposite Cypress Hills Cemetery. Its area is 
about 200 acres, and it is owned by the Temple Emanu-El of New 
York City. It is reached by the same routes as Cypress Hills 
Cem\etery. The grounds are laid out in family plots and graves, 
are watered, and the roads and paths are in asphalt. The ceme- 
tery was founded November 23, 1851, and opened in the early part 
of 1852. It is estimated that there are about 20,000 bodies in- 
terred, and the average number of interments per year is 300. 
Plots cost $800 and upwards, according to location. The 
single graves are $50 for adult and $25 for child, and the cost of 
opening a grave is $6 for adult and $4 for child. There are from 
twelve to sixteen graves to a plot, and only one body is allowed 
to a grave. The receiving tomb charges are $25 per month, and 
twenty-four hours' notice to secure opening of a grave. The rules 
governing enclosures of plots and the erection of headstones and 
monuments are very strict, and only granite or marble enclosures 
are permitted. Peter J. Hiltman is Superintendent. 

SAI\IDY HILL CEMETERY. 

Paterson, N. J. 

Sandy Hill Cemetery is located on Market Street, near Carroll 
Street, in the city of Paterson, N. J., and comprises about sixteen 
city lots. It is a very old cemetery, and is controlled by a number 
of churches in that city. The cemetery is very little used, only by 



ROB'T. D. BEIvTv. EDW. S. BECKER. 

THE BELL 

Manufacturing Co. 

UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES 

— » 

38 GREAT JONES ST., 

Telephone, 283J Spring. NEW YORK. 



.^^"We carry a complete line of Casfcetst Robes, Linings and 
Hardware* 



C. FARRELU 

hoarding and Livery} Stables, 

26 J, 263 and 265 West 33d Street, New York, 

NEAR EIGHTH AVENUE. 



FiRST=CUSS COACHES, COUPES AND LANDAUS. 



Telephone, 309— ^Sth St. 



86 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 

those who own graves or plots, but it is estimated that there are 
about 25 interments per year. 

Plots or graves are not sold in this cemetery. The cost of open- 
ing a grave is $4. 

SCHRAALENBERG CEMETERY. 

SCHRAALIiXBERG, N. J. 

OFFICE AT CEMETERY. 

This cemetery is situated in Schraalenberg. Bergen County, 
T\. J., is principally owned by members of the local Pro- 
testant Church, and is controlled by the consistory of the 
church. It comprises four acres and is reached by the West 
Shore Railroad to Schraalenberg Station. It was opened in 1856, 
and over 1,000 interments have taken place in its plots and graves. 
There are about 20 interments each year. The graves are of 
regular size and cost $5; plots, $10. The cost of opening a grave 
is $3, with the additional charge of $2 for the attendance of the 
sexton, who is the Superintendent of the cemetery. 

SHARETH ISRAEL CEMETERY. 

NE^^'To^^•N, L. I. 

OFFICE AT CEMETERY. 

Shareth Israel Cemetery is the Portuguese burial groimd of 
New York, is situated in Newtown, L. I., and is reached by the 
same routes as Cypress Hills. It is a Jewish cemetery comprising 
about six acres. There are about i.ooo bodies buried. 

SILVER MOUNT CEMETERY. 

RlCii-MOXi:) TUKNPTKE, S. I. 
OFFICE, RICHMOND ROAD, TOMPKINSVILLE, S. I. 
Silver Mount Cemetery was incorporated September 6th, 1866, 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 87 

and is located on the Richmond Turnpike, Staten Island. It is 
reached from New York by the Staten Island ferry to St. George, 
and comprises about 35 acres. It is a well-kept cemetery. It is 
estimated that there are about 7,000 bodies interred and the aver- 
age yearly number of interments is 200. Size of single graves is 
Q.y.dyi'j and cost $10 for adult and $5 for child. Plots 30 cents 
per square foot, and no plot contains less than six graves. Open- 
ing grave costs $6 for adult and $3 for child. Vault charges $10 
for three months. R. McNamara is Superintendent. 

SILVER LAKE CEMETERY. 

TOMPKINSVILLE^ S. I. 

This cemetery is located on the Richmond Turnpike near Silver 
Lake, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and is reached from St. 
George. There have been about 5,000 interments with an average 
yearly number of 600. A. R. Gold, Stapleton, Staten Island, is 
Superintendent, 

SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY. 

Tarrytown, N. Y. 

OI^FICE, 130 MAIN STREET, TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 

This historic cemetery is the oldest in the vicinity of New York. 
It was established as a village graveyard in 1648, and embraces 
151 acres picturesquely located on the east bank of the Hudson 
River, twenty-five miles from the metropolis by the New York 
Central & Hudson River Railroad. Its divisions and subdivisions 
include sections, plots and lots. A new section of 46 acres has 
been added, and it will be laid out on the lawn plan. The entire 
tract includes all of Sleepy Hollow, which is rich in legendary 
lore, having been made celebrated by Washington Irving, whose 
remains lie buried in the cemetery. It is traversed by the Pocan- 
tico River, and bounded on the westerly side by the Hudson River. 



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Its landscapes and river views are imusually beautiful. This 
cemetery is an- ideal resting place for departed ones, combining 
historic memories, rural seclusion and artistic development. 
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery was incorporated in 1849. The number 
of interments that have taken place is estimated at 14,000, and 
there are about 300 interments each year. 

PRICES. 

Single graves : First adult, including sodding, $10 and $15 ; first 
infant, including sodding, $6 and $10 ; second interment, adult, in- 
cluding sodding, $5 ; second interment, infant, including sodding, 
$3 ; third interment, infant, including sodding, $2. For any depth 
below six feet an extra charge of $1 per foot is made. Second in- 
terments when made in the same grave in any private plot are 
subject to like charges as in the single grave. Ordinary brick 
graves, single, from $14 to $38, 3 feet 6 inches to 7 feet 6 inches. 
Grave for boxes exceeding 7 feet long 26 inches wide, $1 extra. 
Orders received after 10.30 a. m. for opening graves for same day 
$1 extra. The charge for interments requiring an adult grave to 
be opened on Sunday is $7 ; for infant grave $5, if the order be 
given after 12 o'clock noon on the Saturday preceding. 

Each full lot contains 400 square feet. The ordinary lot is 16x25 
ft., which will admit of fifteen adult graves, in three rows of five 
graves each. The prices of lots vary, generally from $300 to $800 
each, depending upon the location. Lots 10x10 ft., three adult 
graves, $75 and upwards ; lots 12x10 ft., four adult graves, $go and 
upwards ; lots 10x20 ft., six adult graves, $150 and upwards. 
Opening grave, adults, including sodding, $5 ; children under six 
years, $3. Receiving tomb charges are : adult, $15 ; child under six 
years, $10. If removed to a plot or single grave in the cemetery 
within fifteen days from reception between May ist and October 
1st, or thirty days between October ist and May ist, a rebate 
of $10 for adult or $5 for a child will be made. If removed from 



Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 89 

the Cemetery the charge of 50 cents per day for adults and 25 
cents per day for children will be made in addition to the $5 
charge for opening vault and use of Catacomb from the day of 
reception. If not removed within fifteen days from May ist or 
within thirty days from October ist, the remains will be interred 
in the "Single Grave Division," unless arrangements are made 
with the Superintendent for Tomb Rent. There is also a special 
rate of $2.50 per month for adults, and $1.75 per month for in- 
fants in good lined cases. One dollar is charged for conveyance 
of bodies from the tomb to grave. Samuel Requa is President ; 
W. T. Lockwood, Secretary and Superintendent, and Walter T. 
Sackett. Assistant Superintendent. 

SPEER'S CEMETERY. 

Bergen Avenue and Vroom Street. Jersey City^ N. J. 

oPEicE, 21 hoboken avenue, jersey city, n. j. 

This cemetery is known as Speers' Cemetery and Bergen Ceme- 
tery. It is one and the same cemetery. For information regarding 
lots, etc., see Bergen Cemetery. 

STATEN ISLAND CEMETERY. 

Richmond Terrace, West New Brighton, S. I. 

OFFICE, WEST NEW BRIGHTON, S. I, 

Staten Island Cemetery was opened in 1850, organized July i, 
1893. It is situated on Richmond Terrace, West New Brighton, 
and is reached by the Staten Island Ferry to St. George. The dis- 
tance from the latter place is about two and a half miles. Graves, ' 
adult, $12; child, $7. Lots, $40 to $75. Opening graves, $5 for 
adult and $3.50 for child. 



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TEMPLE BETHEL CEMETERY. 

Ni:wTowN, L. I. 

OFFICE AT CEMETERY. 

This Jewish Cemetery is situated in Newtown, L. L, and com- 
prises ten acres. It is reached by the same routes as Cypress Hills. 
•Several hundred bodies are buried in this cemetery. 

TRINITY CEMETERY. 

Brooki^yn^ N. Y. 
se:e: holy trinity clm^tkry. 

TRINITY CEMETERY. 

Ne^w York City, 
office, 187 fulton street and at cemetery. 

Trinity Cemetery is owned by the Trinity Church Corporation 
:and was opened in 1843. It embraces about 36 acres and occupies 
the area between West 153d Street and West 155th Street, from 
Tenth Avenue to the North River. It is an unusually beautiful 
cemetery, well-kept and carefully guarded, for therein are located 
the family plots and tombs of some of the oldest and wealthiest 
families of New York City, including the Astors. It is reached 
by the Sixth and Ninth x^venue Elevated Road to 155th Street, or 
Tjy the cable cars from 125th Street and Eighth Avenue. The esti- 
mated number of bodies buried in the cemetery is 19,000 and 
■about 150 interments take place every year. No single graves or 
lots are sold. Opening grave $8 for adult and $6 for child. 
Receiving tomb charges are $18 for adult and $15 for child. 
Opening under ground vaults $8 and over ground $6. Twenty- 
four hours' notice is necessary to secure opening of a grave or 
"\-ault. 



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UNION CEMETERY. 

PAI.METT0 Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Closed and bodies removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery, Long 
Island. 

UNION FIELD CEMETERY. 

Newtown, L. I. 

OEEICE ON GROUNDS. 

Union Field Cemetery is situated in Newtown, L. I., and is 
reached by the same routes as Cypress Hills. It comprises about 
45 acres, and belongs to the Jewish congregation of New York 
that controls Macpelah Cemetery. About 15,000 interments have 
l)een made, with a yearly average of 300. 

UNITED STATES CREMATION CO. 

Crematory, Fresh Pond, L. I. 

OFEICE, 62 E. HOUSTON ST., NEW YORK. 

The crematory and columbarium of the United States Crema- 
tion Company is located near Fresh Pond Station, Long Island 
Railroad, opposite Lutheran Cemetery, about four miles from the 
Brooklyn Bridge, and all East River ferries above that point. It 
is reached by Thirty-fourth Street ferry, James Slip ferry, and 
Tail from Long Island City; Roosevelt, Grand Street, Broadway. 
Tenth Street and Twenty-third Street ferries, by North Second 
Street cars, Brooklyn, E. D.. or by Bushwick Avenue cars and 
steam cars from Bushwick. From Brooklyn by the Myrtle 
Avenue. Greene and Gates Avenue cars, or Union Elevated Rail- 
road to Ridgewood, and thence by Lutheran Cemetery cars. 



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The company charges $30 for an incineration of an aduU, and 
$20 for a child under ten years, prepaid. Incinerations are made 
daily, and applications for the same must be made at the com- 
pany's oflfice with the regular permits as are procured for the 
burial of a body. All bodies are incinerated in the clothing as 
received, but no coffin or casket is allowed to be removed from 
the crematory but is burned up after the incineration takes place. 
The ashes are delivered at the company's office the day after the 
incineration. Louis Lange is President ; D. W. Craig, Treasurer, 
and S. Berendsohn, Secretary. 

UNITED STATES MARINE CEMETERY. 

C1.1FTON, S. I. 

Located on Centre Avenue Clifton, Staten Island, and is 
reached by the trolley cars from St. George. 

WASHINGTON CEMETERY. 

PaRTvVTLLE^ L. I. 
OFFICE AT CEMETERY AND I4I BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 

Washington Cemetery was incorporated September 7, 1850, 
and comprises about 100 acres. It is situated between Gravesend 
and New Utrecht, Borough of Brooklyn, about seven miles 
from the Brooklyn Bridge, and is reached by the trolley 
lines from any parts of Brooklyn to the Prospect Park & Coney 
Island Railroad station, corner Ninth Avenue and Twentieth 
Street, South Brooklyn, and Thirty-sixth Street and Ninth 
Avenue ; thence by steam cars to Washington station. It is also 
accessible by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Boulevard, 



Leonard's Manual oi? thk Cemeteries. 93 

which leads to the east entrance of the cemetery. There are 
about 10.000 lots of 400 square feet each in the cemetery, admit- 
ting in each lot about t6 adult interments. The cemetery is a 
Jewish burial ground, although there are many Christians in- 
terred in its graves Thirty-three thousand bodies have been 
interred since the opening of the cemetery, and about 2,000 are 
interred yearly. Prices of lots range from $50 upwards. Opening 
grave for adult, $3; child under 10 years, $2, and infant, $1. One 
body to a grave. Four hours' notice required for opening grave. 
Simon Binswanger is Superintendent. 

WEEHAWKEN AND PALISADE CEMETERY. 

New Durham, N. J. 

OEEICE AT CEMETERY. 

This cemetery is situated on the Hackensack Plank Road in 
New Durham, N. J., opposite the town of Union, N. J., about 
two miles from the Hoboken ferries, and one mile from the 
West Shore Railroad ferry at Weehawken, N. J. It is reached 
by these ferries, and the Union Hill line of cars, which pass 
within two blocks of the entrance. It was founded in 1859, and 
opened in i860, comprises about eighteen acres, divided into 
Protestant, Baptist and Catholic sections, and there have been 
about 19,000 interments in its plots and graves. The principal 
plot owners are German residents of Hoboken and Jersey City. 
Single graves cost from $17 to $25 for adult, and $7 to $10 for 
child. Lot graves are 2.6x7x6 ft. Lots, $30 to $165. Cost of 
opening graves is $5 to $8 for adult, and $3 and $4 for child, 
according to depth at $1 per foot. One body to a single grave, 
and two bodies to a lot grave. Twelve hours' notice required 
for the opening of a grave. 



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WHITE PLAINS RURAL CEMETERY. 

White Plains, N. Y. 
office at cemetery. 

This old and picturesque cemetery is situated about one mile 
north of White Plains depot on the New York and Harlem Rail- 
road, and comprises about twenty-five acres. It was originally 
the local Methodist Church graveyard. Over i,ooo bodies 
have been interred. Single graves for adult, $9, including open- 
ing, and child, $5. Plots, 50 cents per square foot. Opening 
grave $5 for adult, and $3 for child. One body to a grave. 

WOODLAND CEMETERY. 

Newark, N. J. 

OFFICE, 922 BROAD STREET, NEWARK, N. J. 

Woodland Cemetery is situated in the westerly portion of 
Newark, N. J., near Eighteenth Avenue, and is reached from that 
city by Springfield Avenue. It was opened in 1855 and since that 
time about 30,000 bodies have been buried within its limits. The 
average number of interments per year is 1,200. The grounds 
comprise about thirty-five acres, which are divided into family 
lots and single graves. Size of single graves 2, 3, 4x7 ft. and 
cost $4, $8, $12 and $20. Plots, $125 and upwards. Opening 
graves, $3, $4 and $5, with $1 extra for box between 5 and 7 ft. 
over extra, and vault charges $5. Twenty-four hours' notice 
required to secure opening of grave. 

WOODLAND CEMETERY. 

Richmond Turnpike, Staten IsIvAnd, N. Y. 

OFFICE AT cemetery. 

This cemetery comprises about ten acres and was opened in 
the year 1854. It is situated on the Richmond Turnpike, Town 



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of Middletown, S. 1., and is reached by the Staten Island ferry to- 
St. George, the distance from the latter place being two miles. 
About 7,000 bodies have been buried in this cemetery, and the 
yearly number of interments is 160. Single graves $10 for adult 
and $6 for child. Lots 16x16 ft. $65 and admit eight graves. Re- 
opening large grave, $5 ; child's, $3. Two adult bodies to a grave. 
Vault charge is $10 for indefinite period of time. No green hoops, 
or wood allowed for enclosure of lots. Michael Koffer is Presi- 
dent and Superintendent of this cemetery. 

WOODLAWN CEMETERY. 

Jerome Avenue, New York. 
office, 20 east 23d st., new york. 

Woodlawn Cemetery is situated in the Twenty-fourth Ward,. 
New York City, on the line of the New York & Harlem, and' 
the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads, and it is. 
reached by the former road as well as by Jerome Avenue from 
the Harlem River Bridge. It was organized December 29, 1863, 
arid improvements were begun in the spring of 1864. The first 
interment was made January 14, 1865. The cemetery comprises. 
400 acres magnificently laid out under the lawn plan, for Wood- 
lawn is oae of the pioneers in adopting this principle for ceme- 
tery embellishment. The result is that this is one of the most 
beautiful cemeteries to be found in any part of the world. The- 
development of the property to its present high state of beauty,, 
has been enhanced by the erection of the most costly and im- 
posing monuments and private tombs of any cemetery in the- 
United States. Millions of dollars are represented in expendi- 
tures in beautifying the cemetery and in the erection of monu- 
ments and tombs, and the work continues to go on. The ceme- 
tery is laid out in about forty plots, each plot bearing an appro- 



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priate name, and there is a number of artificial lakes, which with 
miles of the best of roads and paths, and the choicest trees and 
shrubs, combine to make it a beautiful city of the dead. There 
are about 2,000 annual interments, and the estimated number of 
bodies buried within the limits of this cemetery is about 59,000. 

PRICES. 

Avenue lots, $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.50 and $3 per square foot. Open 
path lots, $1,75 and $2 per square foot. Grass path lots, $1.25, 
$1.50 and $1.75 per square foot. Lots admitting ten graves may 
be had for from $400 to $1,000, according to location. Corner 
posts for same, $12. Lots admitting six graves, for $250 to $385, 
according to location. Corner posts for same, $9. Lots admit- 
ting four graves, from $162.50 to $175, according to location. Cor- 
ner posts for same, $7 and $9. Lots admitting three graves, for 
$125 and $165, according to location. Corner posts for same, $7. 

Price of adult grave, including opening, in Receiving Lot, $50, 
with $30 rebate if removed at any time. Single graves, including 
opening, $40 for adult and $30 for child under ten years. Two 
bodies to a single grave. Opening tombs, $5; adult graves, 
usual depth of 6 ft., $5, children's graves under ten years, $4. 
Receiving tomb deposits are: $30 for adult and $24 for child 
under ten years. For placing a body in the Receiving Tomb a 
charge is made of $5 per month for an adult and $4 per month 
for a child. In all cases the body must be removed within three 
months. If removed from the cemetery an additional charge of 
$5 for adults and $4 for children is made. The charges, as 
above stated, will be deducted from the deposit. If not removed 
in three months, the remains will be interred in a grave pre- 
pared for that purpose. 

Cost of funeral train, car Woodlawn, to cemetery and back is 
$50; for car attached to passenger train, $35; for ordinary car 
attached to passenger train, $25; for conveyance of remains from 



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New York to^^Woodlawn, $1 ; railroad fare, excursion, to ceme- 
tery, is 35 cents. 

James D. Smith is President of Woodlawn Cemetery Corpora- 
tion; Chas. H. Edgar, Vice-President; Charles S. Smith, Treas- 
urer; William T. Booth, Secretary, and Stewart W. Smith. As- 
sistant Treasurer. Henry J. Diering is Superintendent. 

WOODROW CEMETERY. 

Huguenot Station, State:n Island. 

Woodrow Cemetery is located near Huguenot Station on the 
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway and is reached via St. 
George. Prices of lots, $20 to $30. Graves, $5, and opening 
graves, $5. C. Bogardus, Jr., is Superintendent. 





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CEMETERY LAWS 

OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 



COMPILED BY H. D. LUCE, ESQUIRE, 
OF THE NEW YORK BAR. 



CEMETERY LAWS OF NEW YORK. 

AN ACT RELATING TO MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION PASSED MAY 8, 1895. 
CHAPTER 559 OF THE LAWS OF 1895. 

ARTICLE III. 

CEMETERY CORPORATIONS. 
DEFINITION. 

Section 40. — In this article the term burial includes the act of 
placing a dead human body in a mausoleum, vault or other 
proper receptacle for the dead, as well as in the earth ; the term 
lot OAvner or owner of a lot means any person having a lawful 
title to the use of a lot, plot or part of either in a cemetery ; and 
the term cemetery corporation means any corporation heretofore 
created for cemetery purposes under a law repealed by this chap- 
ter, or hereafter created under this article, but the general term 
cemetery corporation does not include a family cemetery corpora- 
tion or a private cemetery corporation. This article does not 
apply to cemeteries belonging to religious or municipal cor- 
porations. 

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CERTIFICATES OF INCORPOIiATION. 

Sec. 41. — Seven or more persons may become a cemetery cor- 
poration, by making, acknowledging and filing in the offices of 
the Secretary of State and of the Clerk of the county where the 
cemetery of such corporation, or a part thereof, is to be situated ; 
a certificate specifying each county, town, city and village in 
which such cemetery or any part thereof is to be situated ; the 
name of the proposed corporation ; the times of holding its an- 
nual meetings ; the number of its directors ; from six, nine, 
twelve or fifteen ; and the names of the persons to be directors 
until others are elected in their places, divided into three equal 
classes, each class to hold office until the first, second and third 
annual meetings thereafter, respectively. 

Such certificate may ako specify a percentage of the surplus 
proceeds of sales of lots, after payment of the purchase price of 
the real property of the corporation, to be invested as a perma- 
nent fund, the income of which shall be used for the improve- 
ment, preservation and embellishment of the cemetery grounds, 
and for no other purpose. Such certificate shall not be filed 
without the approval, endorsed thereupon or annexed thereto, 
of a Justice of the Supreme Court. 

On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law. the signers 
thereof, their associates and successors shall be a corporation, in 
accordance with the provisions of such certificate. 

CEMETERIES IN KINGS, QUEENS. ROCKLAND, WESTCHESTER AND ERIE 

COUNTIES. 

Sec. 42. — ^A cemetery corporation shall not take by deed, devise 
or otherwise any land in either of the counties of Kings, Queens, 
Rockland. Westchester or Erie for cemetery purposes, or set 
apart any ground for cemetery purposes in either such county, 
unless the consent of the Board of Supervisors thereof be first 
obtained, which board may grant such consent upon such condi- 
tions, regulations and restrictions as, in its judgment, the public 
health or the public good may require. Notice of application to 
any such board for such consent shall be published once a week 
for six weeks in two newspapers of the county having the largest 
circulation therein, stating the time wdien the application will be 
made, a brief description of the lands proposed to be acquired, 
their location and the quantity thereof. All persons interested 



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therein may be heard on the presentation of such application; 
and if such consent is granted, the corporation may take and 
hold the lands designated in such consent, which shall not au- 
thorize any one corporation to take or hold more than two hun- 
dred and ftity acres. The Board of Supervisors of each such 
county may, frorn time to time, make such regulations as to the 
mode of burials in any cemetery in the county, as, in its judg- 
ment, the public health may require. (As amended by Chapter 
193 of Laws of 1896.) 

CORPORATE MEETINGS. 

Sec. 43. — Public notice of each annual meeting of a cemetery 
corporation shall be given in a manner to be prescribed by its 
By-Laws. Each person of full age owning the use of a lot or 
plat, or part- of either containing at least ninety-six square feet 
of land in the cemetery of the corporation, or if there be two or 
more owners of such lot, then one of them designated by a ma- 
jority of such joint owners to represent such lot or plat, or part 
of either, may cast one vote for each such lot or plat, or part of 
either so owned, at the meetings of the corporation. Each 
owner of a certificate of stock heretofore lawfully issued, and 
each owner of a certificate of indebtedness of a cemetery cor- 
poration, may vote at the meetings of the corporation. Each 
owner of stock heretofore lawfully issued shall be entitled to 
one vote for each share of stock owned by him at the meetings 
of the corporation. Each owner of a certificate of indebtedness 
of a cemetery corporation shall be entitled to one vote at such 
meetings for each one hundred dollars of such indebtedness. 

CHAPTER 745, OF THE LAWS OF I9OO, PASSED MAY 3, I9OO. 

Section 44 is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 

DIRECTORS. 

Sec. 44. — The Directors of a cemetery corporation shall be 
elected at its annual meetings, by ballot, by the persons entitled 
to vote thereat. If at any such meeting one-fifth of the owners 
of lots or plats shall not, in person or by proxy, vote thereat, the 
Directors shall be chosen by the existing Directors, or a ma- 
jority of them, unless such Directors shall, at such meeting, 
be chosen by a majority of the votes of the owners of cer- 
tificates of stock or indebtedness. The term of office of a 
Director shall be three years. A vacancy in the office of a Direc- 



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tor shall be filled by appointment, by the remaining Directors, 
until the next annual meeting, when it shall be filled by election 
for the unexpired term. After the first annual meeting, no one 
but a lot owner shall be elegible to the office of Director. The 
Directors may change their number to either six, nine, twelve 
or fifteen, assigning, acknowledging and filing a supplemental 
certificate stating the number of Directors the corporation shall 
thereafter have, and thereafter there shall be elected at each 
annual meeting one-third of the number of Directors fixed by 
such certificate, but the Directors then in office shall continue in 
office until the expiration of their terms, excepting that in the 
county of Jefferson at any meeting the attendance of one- 
fifteenth of the owners of lots or plats will be sufficient to con- 
stitute a quorum for the election of Directors. (As amended by 
Chapter 745 of Laws of 1900.) 

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY. 

Sec. 45. — If the certificate of incorporation or By-Laws of a 
cemetery corporation do not exclude any person from the privi- 
lege, on equal terms with other persons, of purchasing a lot or 
a burial in its cemetery, such corporation may, from time to time, 
acquire by condemnation, exclusively for the purposes of a cem- 
etery, not more than two hundred acres of land in the aggregate, 
forming one continuous tract, wholly or partly within the county 
in which its certificate of incorporation is recorded, except as in 
this article otherwise provided, as to the acquisition of land in 
the counties of Kings, Queens, Rockland and Westchester. A 
cemetery corporation may acquire by condemnation, exclusively 
for the purposes of a cemetery, any real estate or any interest 
therein necessary to supply water for the uses of such cemetery, 
and the right to lay, re-lay, repair and maintain conduits and 
water pipes with connections and fixtures, in, through or over 
the lands of others ; the right to intercept and divert the flow of 
waters from the lands of riparian owners, and from persons 
owning or interested in any waters. But no such cemetery cor- 
poration shall have power to take or use water from any of the 
canals of this State, or any canal reservoirs as feeders, or any 
streams which have been taken by the State for the purpose of 
supplying the canals with water. A cemetery corporation may 
acquire, otherwise than by condemnation, real property as afore- 
said and additional real property, not exceeding in value two 



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hundred thousand dollars, for the purposes of the convenient 
transaction of its general business, no portion of which shall be 
used for the purposes of a cemetery. 

A cemetery corporation may acquire, otherwise than by con- 
demnation, additional real or personal property, absolutely or in 
trust, in perpetuity or otherwise; and use the same or the in- 
come therefrom in pursuance of the terms on which the same is 
acquired, for the following purposes, only : 

T. The improvement or embellishment, but not the enlargement 
of its cemetery. 

2. The construction or preservation of a building, structure, 
fence or walk therein. 

3. The renewal, erection or preservation of a tomb, monument, 
stone, fence, railing or other erection or structure on or around 
any lot therein ; or, 

4. The planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, flowers or 
plants in or about a lot therein. 

A cemetery corporation may accept a conveyance of real prop- 
erty held by a religious corporation for burial purposes, or by 
Trustees for such purposes, if all such Trustees, living and re- 
siding in this State, unite in the conveyance, subject to all bur- 
dens, trusts and conditions to which the title of such grantors 
was stibject. Lots previously sold in any such lands, and grants 
for burial purposes therein previously made, shall not be affected 
by any such conveyance ; nor shall any grave, monument or other 
erection thereupon, or any remains therein, be disturbed or re- 
moved without the consent of the lot owner, or if there be no 
such owner, without the consent of the heirs of the persons 
whose remains are buried in such grave. 

No cemetery shall hereafter be located in any city or incorpor- 
ate village, without the consent of the Common Council of such 
city, or the Board of Trustees of such village, as the case 
may be. 

SURVEYS AND MAPS OF CEMETERY. 

Every cemetery corporation shall, from time to time, as land 
in its cemetery may be required for burial purposes, survey and 
sub-divide such land into lots or plats, with avenues, paths, alleys, 
walks and ornamental plats ; and make and file a map thereof in 
the office of the corporation, open to the inspection of all persons. 
Any unsold lots, plats or parts of lots or plats, in which there 



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have not been any burials may, by order of the Directors, be re- 
surveyed and ahered in shape or size, and properly designated on 
such maps. 

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 47. — The Directors of a cemetery corporation may make 
reasonable rules and regulations for the use, care, management 
and protection of the property of the corporation and of all lots, 
plats and parts thereof in its cemetery ; for regulating the divid- 
ing mark between the various .lots, plats and parts thereof, their 
size, shape, location and the size of erections thereupon ; for pro- 
hibiting or regulating the erection of structures upon such lots, 
plats or parts thereof ; for preventing unsightly monuments, effi- 
gies and structures within the cemetery grounds, and for the re- 
moval thereof ; for regulating the introduction and care of plants, 
trees and shrubs within such ground ; for the prevention of the 
burial in the lot, plat or part thereof, of a person not entitled 
to burial therein ; for regulating or preventing disinterments ; for 
the conduct of persons while within the cemetery grounds ; and 
for the exclusion of improper persons therefrom and improper 
assemblages therein. 

Such rules and regulations shall be plainly printed and pub- 
licly posted in the principal office of the corporation, and in such 
places upon the cemetery grounds as the Directors, by resolution, 
prescribe. The Directors may prescribe penalties to be paid by a 
person violating any such rule or regulation, not exceeding $25.00 
for each violation, which shall be recoverable by the corporation 
in civil action. 

RECORD OF BURIALS. 

Sec. 48. — A record shall be kept of every burial in the ceme- 
tery of a cemetery corporation, showing the date of the burial, 
the name, age and place of birth of the person buried, when 
these particulars can be conveniently obtained, and the lot, plat 
or part thereof, in which such burial was made. A copy of 
such record, duly certified by the Secretary of such corporation, 
shall be furnished on demand and payment of such fees therefor 
as are allowed the County Clerk for certified copies of records. 

TITLE AND RIGHTS OF LOT OWNERS. 

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the burial lots or plats, and keep a plainly-printed copy of the 
schedule of such prices publicly posted in the principal office of 
the corporation, open at all reasonable times to the inspection of 
all persons. 

The corporation, unless its certificate of incorporation or By- 
Laws otherwise provide, shall, subject to its rules and regula- 
tions, sell and convey to any person, the use of the lots or plats 
designated on the map filed in the office of the corporation, on 
payment of the prices so fixed and determined, but need not sell 
and convey more than one lot or plat to one person. The con- 
veyances of lots and plats shall be signed by the President or 
Vice-President and Treasurer of the Corporation. All lots, plats 
or parts thereof the use of which has been as conveyed as a 
separate lot, sTiall be indivisible, except with the consent of the 
lot owner and the corporation ; and the use of the same for 
burial purposes, after the burial therein, shall be inalienable and 
be held in perpetuity by the grantee and his heirs, except as 
otherwise provided in this section ; and on the death of the 
grantee shall descend to his heirs at law, or to such of them, 
or to such other person or persons, or to such other class or 
classes of persons, as may be designated in such conveyance. 
An heir may release to the other heirs, and a joint owner may 
release to the other joint owners, his interest therein, on condi- 
tions specified in the release, which shall be filed in the office of 
the corporation. The title of the grantee, or his heirs, shall 
not be affected by the dissolution of the corcopation or its non- 
user of its corporate rights and franchises, or any act of for- 
feiture on its part, of any alienation of its property or incum- 
brance thereon made or suffered by it. If no burial be made in 
any such lot, or if all the dead bodies buried therein be lawfully 
removed therefrom, the owners thereof may, with the consent 
of the corporation, sell the use of such lot. The Secretary of 
the cemetery corporation shall file and record in its books all 
deeds of transfer. A lot owner may reconvey or devise to the 
corporation his right and title in and to any lot theretofore con- 
veyed to him by such corporation. 

APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS OF SALES OF LOTS. 

Sec. 50. — At least one-half of the proceeds of the sales of the 
use of all lots and plats shall be applied to the payment of the 
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until such purchase money is paid, and the residue thereof shall 
be applied to preserving, improving and embellishing the ceme- 
tery ground and the avenues and roads leading thereto, and to 
defray the incidental expenses and liabilities of the corporation. 
After the payment of such purchase money, and the expense 
of surveying and laying out the cemetery, the proceeds of all 
sales of the use of lots and plats thereafter shall be applied only 
to the improvement, preservation and embellishment of such 
cemetery and the incidental expenses of the corporation. Such 
corporation may agree with the person from whom any lands are 
purchased for a cemetery to pay, therefor a specified share not 
exceeding one-half of the proceeds of all sales of the use of 
lots and plats made from such land, and such share shall be first 
applied to the payment of such purchase money, and the residue 
thereof shall be applied to the preservation, improvement, and 
embellishment of the cemetery, and the incidental expenses of the 
corporation. Where lands have been so purchased, and are ta 
be paid for as provided by this section, the prices of the use of 
lots and plats, fixed by the Directors, and in force when such 
purchase was made, shall not be changed, while the purchase- 
price remains unpaid, without the written consent of a majority 
in interest of the persons from whom the lands were purchased,, 
their heirs, representatives or assigns. 

BURIALS AND REMOVALS. 

Sec. 51. — If there be more than one lot owner of a lot in the 
cemetery of a cemetery corporation, no body of a dead person 
shall be buried therein without the consent of all the owners of 
such lot, unless such person, at the time of his death was an 
owner of the lot, or a relative, wife or husband of an owner, or 
a relative of such wife or husband. 

A dead body lawfully buried in a lot in such a cemetery may 
be removed therefrom, with the consent of the corporation, and 
the written consent of the owners of such lot, and of the sur- 
viving wife, husband, children, if of full age, and parents of the 
deceased. If the consent of any such person cannot be obtained, 
or if the corporation refuses its consent, the consent of the 
County Court of the county or the Supreme Court at a special 
term, held in the district, where the cemetery is situated, shall 
be sufficient. Notice of the application for the consent of the 
court must be given, at least eight days prio» thereto, personally, 



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or, at least, sixteen days prior thereto, by mail, to the corpora- 
tion or to the person not consenting, and to every other person 
on whom service of notice may be required by the court. 

CHAPTER 761, OF THE LAWS OF I9OO, PASSED MAY 4, IQOO. 

Section 52 is amended so as to read as follows : 

TAXATION OF LOT OWNERS BY CORPORATION. 

Sec. 52. — If the funds of a cemetery corporation, applicable to 
the improvement and care of its cemetery wholly outside of a 
city of the first or second class, or applicable to the construction 
of a receiving vault therein for the common use of lot owners, 
be insufficient for such purposes, the Directors of a corporation, 
not oftener than once in any year and for such purposes only, 
may levy a tax of two dollars on the owners of each lot, or, 
with the written consent of two-thirds of the lot owners, or with 
the concurrent vote of a majority of the lot owners, at an an- 
nual meeting, or at a special meeting duly called for such pur- 
pose, may levy a tax on the lot owners at a rate not exceeding 
five dollars for each lot of average value proportionately to the 
prices at which the lots were respectively sold by the corpora- 
tion. Notice of such tax shall be served on the lot owners or 
where two or more persons are owners of the same lot, on one 
of them, either personally, or by leaving it at his residence, with 
a person of mature age and discretion, or by mail, if he resides 
in a city, town or village where the office of the corporation is 
not located. If such tax remain unpaid for more than thirty 
days after the service of such notice, the President and Secre- 
tary of the corporation may issue a warrant to the Treasurer of 
the corporation, requiring him to collect such tax in the same 
manner as school collectors are required to collect school taxes, 
and such Treasurer shall have the same power and be subject to 
the same liabilities in executing such warrant as the collector 
of school taxes has or is subject to by law in executing a war- 
rant for the collection of school taxes. If the taxes so levied 
remained unpaid for five years, the amount thereof with interest 
shall be a lien on the unused portion of a lot, which is subject to 
such tax and no portion of a lot so taxed shall be used for the 
owner thereof for burial purposes, while any such tax remains 
unpaid. (As amended by Chapter 761 of Laws of 1900.) 



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EXPENSES OF IMPROVING VACATED LOT. 

Sec. 53. — Whenever a person having a lot in the cemetery of 
a cemetery corporation shall vacate the same by a removal of all 
the dead buried therein, and leave such lot in a broken and un- 
improved condition for a period of one month or more from the 
date of such removal, the corporation may grade, cut, fill or 
otherwise change the surface thereof, for the improvement of 
the lot and the general improvement of the cemetery grounds, 
without reducing the area of the lot. The expense of such im- 
provement not exceeding ten dollars, shall be chargeable to such 
lot. If the owners of such lot shall not, within six months after 
such expense has been incurred, repay to the corporation the 
amount chargeable to the lot, the corporation may sell the lot at 
public auction, upon the cemetery grounds, previous notice of 
such sale having been posted at the main entrance of the ceme- 
tery, and mailed to the owners of such lot at their last known 
postoffice address, at least ten days prior to the day of sale, and 
shall pay the surplus, if any, of the proceeds of such sale over 
such amount, on demand to the owners of such lot. 



CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS. 

Sec. 54. — If a cemetery corporation be indebted for lands pur- 
chased for cemetery purposes, or for services rendered or ma- 
terials furnished in preserving or improving its cemetery, the 
Directors thereof, by the concurring vote of a majority of their 
whole number, may, wuth the consent of the creditor to whom 
such indebtedness is owing, issue certificates under the corporate 
seal, signed by the President and Secretary, for the amount of 
such indebtedness, or a part thereof, payable at such times and 
drawing such a rate of interest and in such sums as may be 
agreed on with such creditor ; but the amount of any certificate 
shall not be less than one hundred dollars, nor the rate of inter- 
est higher than the rate authorized by law. The certificate shall 
be transferable by delivery, unless otherwise provided on the 
face thereof; and the Directors shall keep in the books of the 
corporation an exact and true account of the number and amount 
of such certificates, the persons to whom issued, the time of ma- 
turity and the rate of interest. A separate account shall be kept 
in the books of the corporation of the certificates issued for the 



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purchase money of lands, and the certificates issued for debts 
incurred in preserving and improving the cemetery. The Direc- 
tors shall set aside from the proceeds of sales of the use of lots 
and plats, such sums as they may deem necessary to pay said 
certificates at their maturity. Until such certificates are paid 
each holder thereof shall be entitled at all meetings of the cor- 
poration, to one vote for each one hundred dollars of such in- 
debtedness held by him. The certificates issued pursuant to this 
section shall not be a lien upon any lot belonging to a lot owner. 

CERTIFICATES OF STOCK HERETOFORE ISSUED. 

Sec. 55. — If a cemetery corporation, incorporated under a law 
repealed by this chapter, has converted its outstanding indebted- 
ness or certificates of indebtedness into certificates of stock, in 
pursuance of law, no interest shall accrue to the holders of such 
stock, but they shall receive annually or semi-annually a dividend 
thereon for their proportional part of the entire surplus or net 
receipts of the corporation over and above current expenses ; or 
if the proportion of the net receipts or surplus which stock- 
holder shall be entitled to receive shall have been fixed by agree- 
ment at the time of issuing such stock, such stockholders shall 
be entitled to receive dividends in accordance with such agree- 
ment. Such certificates of stock shall be transferable only on 
the books of the corporation on the surrender of the certificate, 
unless otherwise provided on the face thereof, and on every 
such surrender a new certificate of stock shall be issued to the 
person to whom the same has been transferred ; and the holders 
of such stock shall be entitled, in person or by proxy, to one 
vote for every share thereof, at each meeting of the corporation. 
A register of the stock issued by the corporation shall be kept by 
its Directors showing the date of issue, the number of shares, the 
par value thereof, the name of each person to whom issued, the 
number of the certificates therefor; and all transfers of such 
stock shall be noted and entered in such register, and the certifi- 
cates surrendered shall be deemed cancelled by the issue of a 
new certificate, and the surrendered certificate ^hall be destroyed. 
Any Director may become the holder or tranferee of such stock 
for his own individual use or benefit. No such stock shall be a 
lien on the lot of any individual lot owner within the cemetery 
limits ; and no other or greater liability of the corporation issu- 
ing such stock shall be created or deemed to exist than may be 



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necessary to enforce the faithful application of the surplus or 
net receipts of the corporation to and among the holders of the 
stock in the manner hereinbefore specified. 

A cemetery which has heretofore issued such certificates of 
stock is a membership corporation and not a stock corporation. 

CHAPTER 292, OF THE LAWS OF 1899, PASSED APRIL 10, 1899. 

Entitled, "An Act Relative to Membership Corporations." 

ANNUAL REPORT OF DIRECTORS. 

Sec. II. — The Directors of every membership corporation, ex- 
cept a corporation for the prevention of cruelty to children or an- 
imals, and a corporation for promoting or maintaining the prin- 
ciples of a political party, created under or by a general or a 
special law, shall present at its annual meeting a report, verified 
by the President and Treasurer, or by a majority of the Direc- 
tors, showing the whole amount of real or personal property 
owned by it, where located, and where and how invested, the 
amount and nature of the property acquired during the year im- 
mediately preceding the date of the report and the manner of 
the acquisition ; the amount applied, appropriated or expended 
during the year immediately preceding such date, and the pur- 
poses, objects or persons to or for which such applications, ap- 
propriations or expenditures have been made ; and the names and 
places of residence of the persons who have been admitted to 
membership in the corporation during such year, which report 
shall be filed with the records of the corporation and an abstract 
thereof entered in the minutes of the proceedings of the annual 
meeting. The Directors of every membership corporation, ex- 
cept a society for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, 
a corporation for the promotion of agriculture and which holds 
annual agricultural fairs, and a corporation formed for promot- 
ing or maintaining the principles of a political party, shall be 
jointly and severally liable for any debt of the corporation con- 
tracted while they are Directors, payable within one year or less 
from the date it was contracted, if an action for the collection 
thereof, be brought against the corporation within one year 
after the debt becomes due, and an execution issued therein to 
the county where its office is, or where a certificate of its in- 
corporation is filed, be returned wholly or partly unsatisfied; and 
if the action against the Directors to recover the amount un- 
satisfied be commenced within one year after the return of such 



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execution ; provided, however, that no Director of a corporation 
formed for promoting or maintaining the principles of a politi- 
cal party shall be liable for any such debts, unless the contract- 
ing of the same shall have been specifically authorized by the 
Board of Directors at a meeting thereof, and assented to thereat 
by the Directors sort to be charged therewith. 

CHAPTER 208, OF THE LAWS OF I9OO, PASSED MARCH 23, IQOO. 

Relating to purchase, sale, mortgage and lease of real property. 

PURCHASE, SALE AND LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY. 

Sec. — 13. — No purchase, sale, mortgage or lease of real property 
shall be made by a membership corporation, unless ordered by 
the concurring vote of at least two-thirds of the whole number 
of its Directors, provided, however, that when the whole num- 
ber of Directors is not less than twenty-one, the vote of a ma- 
jority of the whole number shall be sufficient. No real property 
of a membership corporation shall be leased without leave of the 
Court, for a longer period than five years, or sold or mortgaged. 
A mortgage may be executed to secure the payment of bonds 
issued or to be issued to different persons. The Court may grant 
leave to a membership corporation to convey real property with- 
out consideration, to another membership corporation created for 
the same or kindred purposes. If a mortgage of the real prop- 
erty of any such corporation be executed and delivered without 
leave of the Court, the Court may thereafter, on such proceed- 
ings as are required to obtain leave of the Court to mortgage 
such property, confirm such previously executed mortgage, and 
thereon such mortgage shall be as valid and of the same force 
and effect as if it had been executed and delivered with leave of 
the Court, except as to purchasers or emcumbrancers of such 
real property, subsequent to the execution and delivery of such 
mortgage. A membership corporation may, if its By-Laws so 
provide, and pursuant to the provisions thereof, and without 
leave of the Court, convey to a member of the corporation a por- 
tion of its real property or the erection thereupon, of a cottage 
or other dwelling house with suitable out-buildings, on the terms 
and conditions that such portion, together with the buildings 
thereupon, shall belong to such member and on his death pass as 
part of his estate, to his heirs or devisees, but that the land, 
whereupon such buildings shall be erected, shall be inalienable by 
him or them, except to the corporation or to a member thereof, 



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and that such member in his life time, or after his death, his heirs 
or devisees may convey such interest in such property to the cor- 
poration, or to a member thereof for such sum as may be mutu- 
ally agreed on, but not to any other person. Such conveyance 
may provide that the grantees of the interest in each lot so con- 
veyed shall be entitled to one vote, either in person or by proxy, 
at all meetings of the corporation, if the By-Laws authorize such 
provision. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter no por- 
tion of a cemetery of a cemetery corporation which any person 
other than the corporation is entitled to use for burial purposes, 
or in which burials have been made and not lawfully removed, 
shall be sold, mortgaged or leased by the corporation. 

CHAPTER 360, OF THE LAWS OF 1899, PASSED APRIL 18, 1899. 
VISITATION OF SUPREME COURT. 

Sec. 16. — All membership corporations with their books and 
vouchers, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of a 
Justice of the Supreme Court, or of any person appointed by 
the Court for that purpose. If it appears to such Court by the 
verified petition of a member or creditor of any such corpora- 
tion, that it, or its Directors, officers, or agents, have misappro- 
priated any of the funds or property of the corporation, or 
diverted them from the purpose of its incorporation, or that it 
has acquired property in excess of the amount which it is au- 
thorized by law to hold, or engaged in any business other than 
that stated in its certificate of incorporation, it may order that 
a notice of at least eight days be served on the Directors of the 
corporation, with a copy of such petition, requiring them to show 
cause at a time and place to be therein specified, why they should 
not be required to make and file an inventory and account of the 
property, effects and liabilities of such corporation with a detailed 
statement of its transaction during the twelve months next pre- 
ceding the granting of such order; and, if on the hearing of such 
application, no good cause is shown to the contrary, the Court 
may make an order requiring such inventory, account and state- 
ment to be filed, and proceed to take and state an account of the 
property and liabilities of the corporation, or appoint a referee 
for that purpose ; and when such account is taken and stated, it 
may, after hearing all of the parties to the application, enter a 
final order determining the amount of property so held by the 
corporation, its annual income, whether any of the property or 



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funds of the corporation have been misappropriated or diverted, 
to any other purpose than that for which such corporation was 
incorporated, and whether such corporation has been engaged in 
any other business than that specified in its certificate of incor- 
poration, from which final order and appeal may be taken by 
any party aggrieved, to the Appellate Division of the Supreme 
Court, and to the Court of Appeals : but no corporation shall be 
required to make and file more than one inventory and account 
in any one year, nor to make a second account and inventory, 
while proceedings are pending for the statement of an account 
under this section. 



CEMETERY LAWS OF NEW JERSEY 



AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE INCORPORATION OF RURAL CEMETERY AS- 
SOCIATIONS AND REGULATE CEMETERIES. REVISION 
APPROVED APRIL O, 1875. 

Section i. — That any number of persons residing in this State, 
not less than seven, who shall desire to form an association for 
the purpose of procuring and holding lands to be used exclusively 
for cemetery or a place for the burial of the dead, niay meet at 
such time and place as they or a majority of them may agree, and 
appoint a chairman and secretary by the vote of a majority of 
the persons present ?t the meeting, and proceed to form an as- 
sociation, by determining on a corporate name by which the as- 
sociation shall be called and known, and the number of trustees 
to manage the concerns of the association, which number shall 
not be less than three nor more than twelve, and thereupon may 
proceed to elect by ballot the number of trustees so determined 
on ; and the chairman and secretary shall immediately after such 
election divide the trustees by lot into three classes ; those of the 
first class to bold their office for one year; those of the second 



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class, two years, and those of the third class, three years ; but 
the trustees of each class may be re-elected if they shall possess 
the qualifications hereinafter mentioned ; the meeting shall also 
determine on what day in each year the future annual elections 
of trustees shall be held; and that any association now existing 
or that shall hereafter exist, under and by virtue of this act, may 
by ballot change its present number of trustees to any number 
not exceeding twelve or less than three, at any annual meeting, 
and that the Chairman and Secretary shall then make out a re- 
classification according to the requirements of this section of this 
act, and at the next subsequent election those trustees in the 
first class of the re-classification shall be elected, and subsequent 
elections shall conform to such re-classification, but no trustees shall 
be deemed out of his office till the term for which he was elected 
shall have expired, except by death, resignation or removal out 
of the State, in which last event his trusteeship shall be deemed 
terminated ; and for the purpose of electing trustees at any meet- 
ing after organization of the association, every creditor of such 
association, in addition to his right to vote by virtue of his own- 
ing plats or lots according to section s of this act, shall be en- 
titled to one vote for every four hundred dollars worth at par 
value of bonds, stock or other du'ly authorized evidences of debt 
he or she may own and hold against such association. (Ap- 
proved March 14, 1879, as amended.) 

Sec. 2. — That the Chairman and Secretary of the meeting shall 
within three days after such meeting make a written certificate, 
and sign their names thereto, and acknowledge the same before 
an officer authorized to take the proof and acknowledgement of 
conveyances in the county where such meeting shall have been 
held, which certificate shall state the names of the associates who 
attended such meeting, the corporate name of the association de- 
termined upon by the majority of the persons who met, the num- 
ber of trustees fixed on to manage the concerns of the associa- 
tion, the names of the trustees chosen at the meeting, and their 
classification, and the day fixed on for the annual election of 
trustees ; which certificate it shall be the duty of the Chairman 
and Secretary of such meeting to cause to be recorded in the 
Clerk's office in the county in which the meeting was held, in a 
book to be appropriated to the recording of certificates of incor- 
poration. 

Sec. 3. — That upon such certificate, duly acknowledged as 



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aforesaid, being recorded, the association mentioned therein shall 
be deemed legally incorporated, and shall have and possess the 
general powers and privileges of a corporation ; the affairs and 
property of such association shall be managed by the trustees^ 
who shall annually appoint from among their number a Presi- 
dent and a Vice-President, and shall also appoint a Secretary and 
a Treasurer, who shall hold their places during the pleasure of 
the Board of Trustees ; and the Trustees may require the Treas- 
urer to give security for the faithful performance of the duties 
of his office. 

Sec. 4. — That any association incorporated under this act, or 
under any special act, may take, by purchase or devise, and hold 
within the county in which the certificate of their corporation is 
recorded, or in a county adjoining thereto, lands not exceeding" 
one hundred and twenty-five acres in extent, such lands to be 
adjoining each other and not exceeding in taxable value seventy- 
five thousand dollars, to be held and occupied exclusively for a 
cemetery for the burial of the dead; such land, or such part 
thereof as may, from time to time, be required for that purpose, 
shall be surveyed and sub-divided into lots or plots of such 
size as the Trustees may direct, with such avenues, paths, alleys 
and walks as the Trustees deem proper, and a map or maps of 
such survey shall be filed and kept in the office of the associa- 
tion, open to the inspection of the lot owners ; the Trustees may 
sell and convey the lots or plots, and parts of lots or plots, 
designated on such maps upon such terms as shall be agreed, and 
subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be imposed 
upon the use of such lots or plots by rules or regulations now 
adopted, or hereafter to be adopted, by the Trustees of such asso- 
ciation, the conveyances to be executed under the common seal of 
the association and signed by the President, or the Vice-Presi- 
dent, and the Treasurer of the association ; any association in- 
corporated under this act may hold personal property to an, 
amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, besides what may 
arise from the sale of lots or plots ; provided, that any portion of 
the property of any such company, not actually set apart and 
used for burial purposes, shall be subject to taxation until the 
same has been so set apart and used for actual purposes of 
burial, excepting roads and walks actually graded and in use. 
(As amended by laws, approved May 9, 1889.) 

Sec. 5. — (Amended by supplementary act, approved March 12, 



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1880, and by section 2 of the supplementary act approved March 
17, 1893, post sections 17 and 47.) 

Sec. 6. — That the Trustees, at each annual election, shall jake 
reports to the lot proprietors of their doings, and of the manage- 
ment and condition of the property and concerns of the associa- 
tion ; if the annual election shall not be held on the day fixed in 
the certificate of incorporation, or if, from any cause, Trustees 
should not be then elected, the Trustees shall have power to ap- 
point another day, not more than sixty days thereafter, and shall 
give public notice of the time and place at which time the elec- 
tion may be held, with like effect as if holden on the day fixed 
on in the certificate ; the office of the Trustees chosen at such 
time to expire at the same time as if they had been chosen at the 
day fixed Ijy the certificate of incorporation. 

Sec. 7. — That any association, incorporated pursuant to this act, 
may take and hold any property, real or personal, bequeathed or 
given upon trust to apply the income thereof, under the direction 
of the Trustees of such association, for the improvement or em- 
bellishment of such cemetery, or the erection or preservation of 
any buildings, structures, fences, or walks erected or to be 
erected, upon the lands of such cemetery association, or upon the 
lots and plats of any of the proprietors, or for the repair, preser- 
vation, erection or renewal of any tomb, monument, grave-stone, 
fence, railing. or other erection in or around any cemetery, lot 
or plat, or for planting and cultivating trees, shrubs, flowers or 
plants in or around any such lot or plat, or for improving or 
embellishing such cemetery, or any of the lots or plats, in any 
other manner or form consistent with the design and purposes of 
the association, according to the terms of such grant, devise or 
bequest. 

Sec. 8. — (This section amended by supplementary act approved 
March 14, 1879, section 56 post.) 

Sec. 9. — That all lands lying within the bounds of any ceme- 
tery or burying ground belonging to or used by any religious 
society.. in this State, shall be reserved, for the use of the owners 
thereof, against all causes in action heretofore or hereafter aris- 
ing, except upon mortgage thereof, and shall not be liable to be 
seized, taken or sold by virtue of any judgment, decree, order, 
execution or other process made or rendered by or issued out of 
any court in this State ; provided, that all liens existing upon 
Irnd. before the same is converted into burying grounds, shall 



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be exempt from the operation of this act. 

Sec. 10. — ^That all lots or plats of ground designated on the 
map filed as aforesaid, and numbered as separate lots by the cor- 
poration, shall be indivisible, but may be held and owned in un- 
divided shares; provided, that the boundaries of the unsold lots 
or plats of ground belonging to the corporation may be altered 
or amended, by and with the consent of a majority of the legal 
voters of said association present at any regular meeting of the 
corporation ; and provided further, that a supplemental map or 
maps of said cemetery lands, with such alteration of boundaries 
shown thereon, be filed in the Clerk's office of the county in 
which the land be situated; one-half at least of the proceeds of 
all sales of lots or plots shall be first appropriated to the pay- 
ment of the purchase money of the lands acquired by the associa- 
tion until the whole purchase money shall be paid, and the residue 
thereof to preserving, improving and embellishing the said ceme- 
tery grounds, and the avenues and roads leading thereto, and to 
defray the incidental expenses of the cemetery establishment; and 
after the payment of the purchase money, and the debts con- 
tracted therefor, and for surveying and laying out the land, the 
proceeds of all future sales shall be applied to the improvement, 
embellishment and preservation of such cemetery and for inci- 
dental expenses, and to no other purpose or object, so long as 
such embellishment is incomplete. (Amended and supplementary 
act approved February 24, 1882.) 

Sec. II. — That whenever the said land shall be laid off into 
lots or plats, and such lots or plats, or any of them, shall be 
transferred to individual holders, and after there shall have been 
an interment in a lot or plat so transferred, such lot or plat, from 
the time of such interment, shall be forever thereafter inalienable, 
and shall, upon the death of the holder or proprietor thereof, 
descend or go to the heirs-at-law or devisee of such holder or 
proprietor ; provided, nevertheless, that any one or more of such 
heirs-at-law may release and convey to any other of the said 
heirs-at-law, or unto the widower, widow or next of kin of any 
deceased person interred in such lot or plat, his or their interest 
in the same, on such conditions as shall be agreed on and speci- 
fied, a copy of which conveyance shall be recorded in the Clerk's 
office of the county within which the said, cemetery shall be sit- 
uated ; and provided further, that the body of any deceased person 
shall not be interred in any such lot or plat, unless it be the 



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body of the person having at the time of such decease an interest 
in such lot or plat, or the relative of some person having such 
interest, or the w^ife of such person, or her relative, except by 
the consent of all persons having an interest in such lot or plat. 

Sec. 12. — That any person who shall w^illfully destroy, mutilate, 
deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, grave-stone, 
building, or other structure, placed in any cemetery of any asso- 
ciation incorporated under this act or otherwise, or any fence, 
railing, or other work for the protection or ornament thereof, or 
of any tomb, monument, or grave-stone, or other structure afore- 
said, or of any lot or plat within such cemetery, or shall will- 
fully destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub, or plant 
within the limits of such cemetery, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor ; and such offender shall also be liable in an action 
of trespass, to be brought in all such cases in the name of such 
association, to pay all such damages as shall have been occasioned 
by his unlawful act or acts ; such money, when recovered, shall be 
applied by the Trustees to the reparation or restoration of the 
property so destroyed or injured. 

Sec. 13. — That any cemetery association within this State, ex- 
isting under special statute or by virtue of an incorporation under 
the general statutes of which this is a supplement, is hereby em- 
powered to sell, purchase and exchange its lands and any lands 
adjoining its premises, for the purpose of straightening its lines; 
and to sell and dispose of such parts of its land as have not been 
laid out into burying lots, and appropriate the proceeds received 
therefrom in paying the debts and liabilities of the said associa- 
tion and improving the cemetery. (Supplementary act approved 
March 29, 1878.) 

Sec. 14. — That any association incorporated as aforesaid may 
take and hold any property, real and personal, bequeathed or 
given in trust, to apply the income thereof under the direction of 
the Trustees or managers of such an association for the im- 
provement or embellishment of such cemetery, or the erection or 
preservation of any buildings, structures, fences or walks erected 
or to be erected upon the lands of such cemetery association or 
upon the lot or plots of any of the proprietors, or for the re- 
pair, preservation, erection or renewal of any tomb, monument, 
grave-stone, fence, railing or other erection in and around any 
cemetery lot or plot, or for planting and cultivating trees, shrubs, 
flowers or plants in or around any such lot or plot, or for im- 



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proving or embellishing such cemetery or any of the lots or plots 
in any other manner or form consistent with the design and pur- 
poses of the association, according to the terms of such grant, 
devise or bequest. (Supplementary act approved March 29, 1878.) 

Sec. 15. — That whenever any bonds heretofore legally issued by 
any association incorporated as aforesaid under the authorit}^ of 
law, are now due and unpaid, or shall hereafter become due, the 
managers or Trustees of any such association may renew ninety- 
five percentum of said indebtedness, or any less part thereof, by 
the issuing of the bonds of said association for that purpose, 
which said bonds shall be made payable at period of time not ex- 
ceeding twenty years from the date of issuing the same, and shall 
draw such rate of interest not exceeding seven percentum per 
annum, and be issued in such sums as the managers or Trustees 
shall by resolution determine; which bonds shall be of the denom- 
ination of not less than fifty dollars or more than one thousand 
dollars, and shall be executed under the corporate seal of said 
association and the signature of the President thereof, and shall 
have coupons attached for every half-year's interest until due. 
payable at the office of the Treasurer thereof ; which coupon shall 
be signed by said Treasurer and numbered to correspond with 
the bond to which they shall be respectively attached, and which 
said bonds shall be exempt from taxes as burial grounds or ceme- 
teries are now by law exempt. 

Sec. 16. — (Amended a supplementary act, approved March 14, 
1879, being section i above.) 

Sec. 17. — (Amendment of section 5, this section amended by 
section 47 post.) 

Sec. 18 — That the rents, issues, profits, income and revenues 
derived from any and all lands lying within the bounds of any 
cemetery or burying ground belonging to, or used by, or held in 
trust for, any incorporated cemetery company in this State^. may 
be taken and sequested under and by virtue of the orders and de- 
crees of the Court of Chancery of this State, according to the 
rules and practice of that Court, and applied by said Court of 
Chancery to the payment of any judgment recovered in any of 
the courts of this State against such cemetery company owning or 
using said lands ; and that for that purpose the said Court of 
Chancery may, if necessary, appoint a receiver or receivers of the 
said rents, issues, profits, income and revenues (and take such 
order regarding the same as may be just and equitable), but 



122 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



nothing- in this act contained shall make the said lands liable to 
be seized, taken or sold, by virtue of any judgment, decree, order, 
execution or other process made or rendered by, or issued out of, 
any court in this State. 

Sec. 19. — (Section 10 above.) 

Sec. 20. — (Repealing clause in act approved February 24, 1882, 
amending section 10 above.) 

Sec. 21. — (Supplementary act approved March 22, 1883, and 
amendatory act approved May 9, 1889, incorporated in section 4, 
above.) 

Sec. 22. — (Supplementary act approved March 23, 1883.) That 
the lands which any association incorporated under the act to 
which this is a supplement, shall take and hold in any county of 
this State, under and by virtue of said act, shall adjourn and be 
contiguous to each other, and shall not consist of separate tracts 
in different places in the same county; provided, that this shall 
not be taken to apply to cemetery grounds which lie immediately 
opposite each other on different sides of any public road or roads. 

Sec. 23. — (As amended by acts approved April 25, 1894, and by 
an act approved March 22, 1899.) 

No more than three cemeteries shall be located or placed under 
and by virtue of said act to which this is a supplement, in any 
one city, township or town in any county of this State; provided, 
however, that nothing in this section shall prevent any cemetery 
association now incorporated from continuing, maintaining, en- 
larging and conducting any cemetery in any township of this 
State where such cemetery has been located and used for the 
past ten years successively ; and provided further, that in any 
township of this State where the capacity of an existing cemetery 
is exhausted, so that no further plots can be purchased, an addi- 
tional cemetery may be created or placed at not less than three 
miles from any other existing cemetery in said township, sub- 
ject, however, to all laws or provisions thereof governing and 
regulating cemeteries in this State. 

Sec. 24. — That the municipal authorities of the city, town and 
township in which any cemetery is or shall be located, shall have 
the power and authority to pass, alter and repeal ordinances to 
regulate interments, disinterments and the manner thereof, in any 
cemetery in said city, town or township, and to prescribe the 
penalty by fine not exceeding fifty dollars in each 'case, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ten days in each 



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case, or both, for an}^ violation of any ordinance authorized by 
this act; and said municipal authorities or any authorized agent 
thereof shall have the power and authority, at all times, to enter 
into and upon any cemetery within the limits of said municipality, 
and examine into the condition of said cemetery, and whether the 
ordinances regulating the same are duly enforced. 

Sec. 25. — That any recorder, police justice or justice of the 
peace in any city, town or township of this State, be and he is 
hereby empowered on oath, affirmation or affidavit, made accord- 
ing to law, that any person or persons has or have been guilty of 
a violation of any such ordinance as aforesaid, to issue a process 
either in the nature of a summons or of a warrant, as to him 
may seem most advisable, against the person or persons so vio- 
lating such ordinances, which process shall, when in the nature 
of a warrant, be returnable forthwith, and when in the nature 
of a summons be returnable in five entire days, and such process 
shall state what ordinance the defendant or defendants named 
therein has or have violated, and in. what manner; and on the 
return of such process, or at the time to which the same shall 
be adjourned, the said recorder, police justice or justice of the 
peace, as the case may be, shall proceed to hear the matter, and 
to determine and give judgment in the same, and if judgnient 
be given for the plaintiff, execution shall forthwith issue against 
tl-te goods, chattels and persons of the defendant or defendants, 
and all sums collected or recovered under this act shall be forth- 
with paid to the Treasurer or Collector of the city, town or 
township in which the same are collected, for the benefit of such 
municipality; provided, that in all cases where the fine or penalty 
shall exceed ten dollars, or where the punishment may be im- 
prisonment, there may be a trial by jury, to be conducted as in 
cases triable by jury in the courts for the trial of small causes; 
provided, however, that said municipal authorities shall have the 
power to remit any penalty that may be inflicted or adjudged, 
upon application made to them. 

Sec. 26. — That every cemetery association shall annually, 
within ten days after its annual election, file in the Clerk's office 
of the county wherein it is located, a certificate setting forth the 
names of the Trustees and officers of said association. 

Sec. 27. — That all acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with this 
act. be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall 
be deemed to be a public act, and shall take effect immediately. 



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Sec. 28. — (Supplementary act approved March 25, 1885.) 

That every dead human body interred in any burying ground 
or cemetery within the limits of the State of New Jersey shall 
be buried so that the top of the outside coffin shall be at least 
four feet below the natural surface of the ground and shall be 
immediately covered with at least four feet of earth, soil or sand ; 
except only the bodies of infants in boxes not more than four 
feet in length, which shall be so interred that the top of the 
outside box enclosing them shall be at least three feet and six 
inches below the natural surface of the ground, and they shall 
be immediately covered with at least three feet and six inches 
of earth, soil or sand ; provided, this shall not apply where bodies 
are placed or buried in properly constructed private vaults, so as 
to prevent the escape of noxious or unhealthy gases therefrom. 

Sec. 29. — (As amended March 24, 1890.) 

That no dead human body shall be disinterred or removed from 
any grave, or burial place within the limits of this State be- 
tween the first day of May and first day of November except 
by the direction of a competent court of this State for the pur- 
pose of criminal investigation ; provided, however, that such dis- 
interment or removal may be made at any time upon a permit 
being given for the purpose by the local Board of Health existing 
in the locality where such body is interred or entombed. 

Sec. 30. — (As amended May 9, 1889.) 

That no dead human body of any person who has died of 
small-pox, cholera, yellow-fever, ship or typhus, spotted, re- 
lapsing, or scarlet-fevers or from any new disease, publicly de- 
clared by the State Board of Health or by any county Board of 
Health to be epidemic or endemic and contagious, shall be dis- 
interred or removed from any grave, tomb, vault or place of 
burial within the limits of this State at any time, unless the said 
body was originally interred in a metallic case, hermetically 
sealed, and then only by the order of and under the direction of 
the Board of Health within whose jurisdiction such body was 
buried ; provided, however, that the provisions as to said metallic 
case shall not apply where said body shall have been. buried or 
interred three years or more, and shall have died from other 
disease than small-pox, cholera or yellow-fever ; and provided 
further, that it may be lawful to remove, for re-interment, be- 
tween the first day of November and the first day of April in 
each year, within the limits of the same cemetery, the dead body 



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of any person that may have died from other disease than small- 
pox, cholera or yellow-fever ; provided, that special permit there- 
for is first obtained from the Board of Health within whose 
jurisdiction such body shall be buried. 

Sec. 31. — That no dead human body shall be permitted to re- 
main longer than forty-eight hours in any receiving vault in this 
State, the depth of which is less than five feet below the natural 
surface of the grovmd, between the first day of May and the first 
of November ; provided, this shall not apply to properly con- 
structed receiving vaults which prevent the escape of noxious 
and unhealthy gases. 

Sec. 32. — That the municipal authorities or Board of Health 
of any city, town, township or borough in this State, or their 
properly authorized agent or agents, shall have the power and 
authority at all times to enter into and upon any cemetery or 
burying ground within the limits of said municipality and ex- 
amine into the condition of the same, and ascertain whether the 
laws regulating it are duly observed. 

Sec. 33. — That it shall not be lawful to locate any new cemetery 
or burying ground, or to enlarge any cemetery or burying ground 
in this State without the consent and approval of the municipal 
authorities and Board of Health of the city, township, town or 
borough in which it is proposed to locate or enlarge said ceme- 
tery or burying ground, upon application in writing for that pur- 
pose made ; and in case of the refusal of the municipal authorities 
and local Board of Health to grant the same,, then the person 
or persons making application as aforesaid may apply to the State 
Board of Health, which shall have power to reverse the decision 
of the local authorities and grant the application ; and in case the 
local authorities grant the permit to locate or enlarge any ceme- 
tery or burial ground and the same shall be deemed objectionable 
by the inhabitants of the city, town, township or borough where 
it is proposed to locate, then ten citizen free-holders thereof may 
apply to the State Board of Health, which shall have power to 
reverse the decision of the local authorities and prohibit said 
location or enlargement ; and it is herein specially provided, that 
all persons making application as aforesaid, for the location or 
enlargement of any cemetery, shall accompany the same with a 
descriptive map of the premises they propose to occupy, a copy 
of which shall also be filed in the office of the State Board of 
Health; and provided further, that nothing in this section con- 



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tained shall apply to lands already purchased by any duly- 
oraranized cemetery company for burial purposes. 

Sec. 34. — That any person violating any of the foregoing pro- 
visions of this act, and any person in charge of or exercising con- 
trol over any cemetery or burial ground in this State, who shall 
knowingly permit or sufifer such violation to be done, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall 
be punishable by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or 
imprisonment for six months, or both, in the discretion of the 
court. 

Sec. 35. — That whenever any cemetery or burial ground or part 
thereof, by reason of its location or the too great number of 
bodies interred therein, or for any other cause, is dangerous to 
the public health, and it is unadvisable that any further inter- 
ments be made therein, any municipal authority within whose 
limits any such cemetery or burial ground it situated, or any 
State or local Board of Health, may file a bill in the Court of 
Chancery, either in the name of the State on the relation of said 
complainant or otherwise, asking relief in the premises, and the 
procedure shall be according to the rules and practice of said 
court ; and if it shall thereupon be determined by said court 
that any cemetery, burial ground, or any part thereof, for any 
of the reasons aforesaid is dangerous to public health or that 
further interments therein would be unadvisable, then said court 
shall have the power and authority, by injunction or otherwise, 
according to the practice of said court, to grant such relief as to 
said court shall seem proper and necessary for the protection of 
the public health. 

Sec. 36. — That in case said couTt shall determine that the com- 
plainant or complainants are not entitled to any relief in any pro- 
ceeding that may be taken under section 8 of this act (section 35 
above), costs shall not be awarded as of course against said com- 
plainant, but only in case it shall appear to the Chancellor that 
no probable cause existed for bringing such suit. 

Sec. 2)7 • — That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be 
and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall be 
deemed a public act and take effect immediately. 

Sec. 38. — (Supplementary act passed March 30, 1886.) 

That in all cases where the grounds of any cemetery association 
have been laid out on a map or maps, on which there are por- 
tions of grounds not marked out into lots, and which have not 



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been laid out as a part and the same designated as such in the 
deeds given for burial lots in said cemeteries, or which have not 
been heretofore reserved and set apart for building purposes, 
and not laid out as avenues, it shall be lawful for the Trustees of 
such association to cause such portions of the grounds to be 
laid out into lots and sold for burial purposes ; provided, how- 
ever, that paths or other roadways shall be maintained to the 
lots already sold. 

Sec. 39. — That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the 
provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and 
this act shall take effect immediately. 

Sec. 40. — (Amendment of section 4 above and therein set forth 
in full.) 

Sec. 41. — (Amendment of section 30 above, passed May 9, 1889, 
and therein set forth in full.) 

Sec. 42. — ^(Repealing clause in amendatory act passed May 9, 
1889.) 

Sec. 43. — (Supplementary act approved March 24, 1890.) 

That it shall be lawful for any cemetery association incorpor- 
ated under the act to which this is a supplement, to change the 
name of such association and adopt a new name. 

Sec. 44. — That any such change shall be adopted only by two- 
thirds vote of the lot owners of such association present at any 
regular meeting, ten days notice of such proposed change having 
been duly published in a newspaper printed and published in the 
city or county in which such cemetery is situated, or by notice 
duly served on each lot owner at least five days before such pro- 
posed change, and when so adopted, a certified statement of such 
change of name, signed by the President and attested by the Sec- 
retary, under the seal of the association, shall be filed in the 
office of the Clerk of the county wherein such cemetery is sit- 
uated ; and upon such filing, the name of such association shall 
be changed as stated in said certificate, and the said change shall 
have the same force and effect as if the altered provision had 
been contained in the original certificate of incorporation ; but 
no change in the name of such association shall in any wise effect 
or alter its rights and privileges or liabilities, but such associa- 
tion shall be entitled to have, receive and hold, under its new 
name, any property which it formerly held or which may be 
hereafter given or bequeathed to it under its original name. 



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Sec. 45. — (Act amending section 29 above and therein set forth 
in full.) 

Sec. 46. — (Supplementary act approved March 17, 1893.) 

That the care and management of all cemetery associations in- 
corporated under the provisions of the act to which this act is a 
supplement, or by virtue of any special charter, may be confided 
in a Board of Managers or Trustees, which Board shall consist 
of not less than three nor more than twelve managers or trustees, 
who shall be lot holders, and shall be elected at the annual meet- 
ing of the association, at which time the number of the said 
Board of Managers or Board of Trustees shall be determined ; 
and the President and Secretary shall, immediately after such 
election, divide the managers and trustees, by lot, into three 
classes : those of the first class to hold their office one year, 
those of the second class two years, and those of the third class 
three years, but the managers or trustees of each class may be re- 
elected if they shall possess the requisit qualification at the time 
of their re-election ; they shall also determine on what day in 
each future year the annual election of managers or trustees shall 
be held ; the said board to have the exclusive superintendence of 
such association, with full power to appoint, employ, and discharge 
any or all of the officers or agents of said association, as they may 
deem expedient, and to fix the compensation of such officers or 
agents. 

Sec. 47. — That the annual election for managers or trustees to 
supply the place of those whose term of office expires shall be 
held on the day selected, or at such time or at such hour and 
place as the Managers or Trustees shall direct, at which election 
shall be chosen such number of managers or trustees as will 
supply the places of those whose term expires : the managers or 
trustees chosen at any election subsequent to the first shall hold 
their places for three years, and until others shall be chosen to 
succeed them ; the election shall be by ballot, and every person 
of full age, who shall be proprietor of a lot or plat in the ceme- 
tery of the association, or if there be more than one proprietor of 
any such lot or plat, then such one of the proprietors as the ma- 
jority of the joint proprietors shall designate to represent such 
lot or plat, may either in person or by proxy give one vote for 
each lot or plat; provided, that no one person shall vote for 
more than one hundred plats or lots ; and the person or persons 
receiving the largest number of the votes given at such election 
shall be managers or trustees to succeed those whose term of 



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office expires; and the managers or trustees shall have power to 
fill any vacancy in their number occurring during the period for 
which they hold their office ; public notice of the annual election 
shall be given in such manner as the By-Laws of the association 
shall prescribe. 

Sec. 48. — That no such manager or trustee shall be personally 
liable or responsible for the debts or obligations of any such 
association contracted after the passage of this act. 

Sec. 49. — That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this 
act be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 50. — (Amendment of section 23 above, which section was 
again amended March 22, 1889, and is therein set forth in full.) 

Sec. 51. — (Supplementary act approved March 28, 1895.) 

That associations incorporated under the said act or that may 
hereafter be incorporated thereunder shall have the power to 
acquire lands, additional to those already used for the purpose of 
sepulture, or lands required for such purpose in case none have 
hitherto been acquired, for the purpose of enlarging the burial- 
ground or cemetery belonging^ to such association, to an extent 
not exceeding ten acres, and that such lands may be acquired 
either by purchase or gift or by condemnation. 

Sec. 52. — That in case the Trustees of such association cannot 
agree with the owner or owners, or other person or persons inter- 
ested in any lands which the said Trustees may desire to take, 
as to the amount of the compensation to be paid for the said 
lands, or in case any of said owners or other persons interested 
shall be under any incapacity or disability to contract for the 
same, then, and in every such case, it shall be lawful for any 
Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, upon application by 
said Trustees, and upon twenty days' notice to the owners and 
other persons interested in said lands, to appoint three disinter- 
ested commissioners, residents of the county in which the lands 
are situated, to assess and ascertain in value of the lands pro- 
posed to be taken, awd the damage which said owners and per- 
sons interested may sustain by such taking ; if_ any of the said 
Commissioners neglect or refuse to perform their duties the said 
Justice may appoint others in their stead ; the said Commissioners 
shall appoint a time and place at which they shall meet to exe- 
cute the duties of their appointment, and shall give twenty days' 
notice thereof to .be given to the parties interested therein, at 
which time the said Commissioners shall meet and view the 



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premises and hear the parties interested and take evidence (if 
any be offered), for vJ^fjfch purpose they shall have power to ad- 
minister oaths and affimiations, and they may adjourn from day 
to day ; the said Trustees shall exhibit to the said Commissioners, 
at their said meeting, a statement and description, in writing or 
by maps, of the lands sought to be taken ; and the said Com- 
missioners, upon being satisfied that it is necessary for the said 
cemetery association to acquire the said lands for burial purposes 
as aforesaid, shall ascertain and assess the value and damages 
aforesaid, and shall execute, under their hands and seals, or the 
hands and seals of the majority of them, an award to said associa- 
tion of the lands sought to be taken, which award shall contain 
a description of the said lands, and shall state the amount of 
damages and compensation therefor by them assessed in favor 
of such owner or owners, which award shall by them be 
acknowledged before an officer authorized to take the acknowledg- 
ment and proof of deeds for said county, and shall be recorded 
in the Clerk's office of the said county by the Clerk of said 
county ; the notices required to be served by this section shall be 
in writing, and may be served either personally or by leaving at 
the dwelling-house or usual place of abode of the person re- 
quired to be served therewith, with a member of his or her family 
above the age of fourteen years ; in case it shall be impossible to 
make such service, then s. publication of the said notice in a news- 
paper circulating nearest said lands for the full period of twenty 
days shall be sufficient ; in case any of the owners are minors, the 
notice shall be served upon the parent or guardian of such 
minors ; in case of other disability, publication in a newspaper as 
aforesaid shall be sufficient. 

Sec. 53. — That before taking possession of said lands, the said 
association shall pay or tender to the owner or owners the amount 
of such compensation so awarded by the commissioners ; or in 
case the said owner or owners cannot be found or shall refuse 
to accept the same, or shall be under any legal disability, then 
the said money shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of said county; and the award of said Commissioners and 
the payment or tender or deposit as aforesaid of the same shall 
vest in the said association the lands described in the said award, 
in all respects the same as if the said lands had been conveyed to 
said corporation by said owner or owners under their hands and 
seals. 



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Sec. 54. — That if either party feels aggrieved by said assess- 
ment and award, such party may appej^to the next or second 
term of the Circuit Court of said county, by petition and notice 
thereof served upon the opposite party in the same manner as 
hereinbefore directed, which petition and notice shall vest in 
said court's full power to hear and determine said appeal ; and, 
if required, they shall award a venire for a jury to come before 
them, who shall hear and finally determine the issue under the 
direction of the court, as in other trials by jury; andjjit shall 
be the duty of the said jury to assess the value of the lands abso- 
lutely taken and the damages; and the said court shall have 
power to order a struck jury, or a jury of view, or both, to try 
any such appeal, and also to order any jury that may be im- 
paneled and sworn to try any such appeal, to view the premises 
in question during such trial ; but the right of the corporation to 
appeal from and dispute the correctness of any award shall not 
be waived or taken away by the paying or tendering the amount 
of the award and taking possession of the lands or exercising the 
rights covered by such award ; and the right of any owner of any 
such lands in like manner shall not be waived or lost by the 
acceptance of the amount so awarded when tendered ; upon the 
final determination of such appeal, the said court shall render 
judgment in favor of the one party and against the other, as the 
right and justice of the case shall require, and shall award to 
the parties substantially succeeding and prevailing in said appeal 
his, her or their costs of said appeal against the opposite party, 
and shall have power to enforce the judgment so rendered by 
execution as other judgments are enforced, and also by sum- 
mary proceedings and attachment for non-payment thereof. 

Sec. 55. — That the said Commissioners, in making their award, 
shall award such sum as in their judgment will be a reasonable 
compensation to the owners of any estate in the lands sort to be 
taken, designating the compensation awarded to each person own- 
ing an estate in said land ; and the award and payment or tender 
or deposit shall vest in the said association all estates in said, 
lands, whether present or future, vested or contingent. 

Sec. 56. — (Supplementary act approved March 14, 1879.) 

That the cemetery lands and property of any association (and 
bonds and mortgages given to secure the purchase money by act 
of 1868), formed pursuant to this act and actually used for ceme- 
tery purposes, shall be exempt from all public taxes, rates and 



132 Lp:onard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



assessments, and shall not be liable to be sold on execution or be 
applied in payment of debts due from any individual proprietors ; 
but the proprietors of lots or plats in such cemeteries, their heirs 
or devisees, may hold the same exempt therefrom so long as the 
same shall remain dedicated to the purpose of a cemetery, and 
during that time no street, road, avenue or thoroughfare shall 
be laid through such cemetery or any part of the lands held by 
such association for the purposes aforesaid, without the consent 
of the Trustees of such association, except by special permission 
of the Legislature of the State. 

Sec. 57. — (Supplementary act approved April 13, 1876.) 
That any person who shall unlawfully and willfully destroy, 
mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, grave- 
stone, building or other structure placed in or upon any grave- 
yard or burial plat in this State, or shall unlawfully and will- 
fully cut, bark, break, injure, remove or destroy any tree, shrub 
or plant therein, or shall willfully break, injure, deface, remove 
or destroy the fence, hedge or railing enclosing such grave- 
yard or burial plats, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and such offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass, to 
be brought by the owner or owners, to pay all such damages as 
have been occasioned by his or her said unlawful acts. 

Sec. 58. — That any person who shall bring any dog or dogs, 
goat or goats within the limits of any graveyard or burying plat 
in this State, shall for every such offense, upon conviction thereof 
before a Justice of the Peace of the county wherein said offense 
shall be committed, forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars for 
the use of the poor of the township or ward, and shall also be 
liable in an action of trespass at the suit of the owner or owners 
for all damages committed by said dog or dogs, goat or goats. 
Sec. 59. — (Supplementary act approved April 3, 1878.) 
That if at anv time any cemetery company or association of 
this State, whether organized under any general or special act 
or acts of this State, is discovered to be without Trustees law- 
fully elected to manage its affairs, or if any cemetery association 
of this State has omitted and failed to hold an election for 
trustees or to elect trustees on the day designated and appointed 
in and by the provisions of law incorporating such cemetery com- 
pany, it shall be lawful for every such cemetery association to 
proceed to hold an election for trustees of such association, three 
cr more of the persons owning lots in the cemetery of such asso- 



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elation first giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place 
of holding such election, which notice shall be published in one 
or more newspapers circulating in the county in which such ceme- 
tery is located, which election shall be by ballot and shall be held 
at the principal office or place of business of the said company 
in this State, at which election every person of full age, owning 
a lot in said cemetery, and in case of a joint or several owner- 
ship in any lot, then such one of the parties in interest as the 
majority of ownership in such lot shall designate to represent 
such lot, may, either in person or by proxy in writing, give one 
vote for each lot so owned ; provided, no person shall give, as 
owner or by proxy, more than one hundred votes at such elec- 
tion for trustees, and the persons receiving the largest number 
of votes given at such election shall be and remain the lawful 
trustees of such company until their successors are lawfully ap- 
pointed: and said trustees shall be chosen from the lot owners, 
and shall not exceed the number of trustees provided by law for 
such company. 
Sec. 60. — (Supplementary act approved March 25, 1881.) 
That the annual election of trustees, held after the election 
for trustees provided for in the first section of the act to which 
this is a supplement, shall be by ballot, and shall be held at the 
principal office or place of business in this State of such ceme- 
tery company or association in the said act provided for ; at which 
annual elections every person of full age owning a lot in said 
cemetery, and in case of a joint or several ownership in any lot, 
then such one of the parties in interest as the majority of owner- 
ship in such lot shall designate to represent such lot, may, either 
in person or by proxy in writing, give one vote for each lot so 
owned ; provided, no person shall give, as owner or by proxy, 
more than twenty-five votes at any one election for trustee ; 
and the persons receiving the largest number of the votes given 
at such election shall be and remain the lawful trustees of such 
company until their successors are lawfully appointed ; and said 
trustees appointed at such annual election shall be chosen from 
the lot owners, and shall not exceed the number of trustees pro- 
vided by law for such company. 

Sec. 61. — (Supplementary act approved June 22, 1886.) 
That whenever the Board of Directors, Managers or Trustees 
of any cemetery association, company or corporation of- this 
State, organized either under general or special law or laws, or 



134 Leonard's Manual of the Cemeteries. 



the body having the management of any cemetery in this State, 
by whatever name such body may be known, shall determine by 
resolution that, in their opinion, the interests of such cemetery 
association, company or corporation would be promoted by the 
sale of any portion of its lands not suitable for burial purposes, 
upon which no burials shall have been made, except such lands as 
have been dedicated for a park and so expressed in the deeds 
given for lots sold, or have been set aside for building purposes, 
for other than building purposes, and shall in such resolution 
particularlv describe the portion of such lands which they pro- 
pose to sell, such board or body shall, within one week after the 
passage of such resolution, give public notice, signed by the Sec- 
retary of such board or body, of the time and place when and 
where a meeting of the members of such association, company or 
corporation will be held to determine by vote whether such board 
or body shall be authorized to sell the lands described in such 
resolution. 

Sec. 62. — That the public notice aforesaid shall contain the 
description of the lands proposed to be sold, and shall be pub- 
lished in two newspapers printed and published in the county 
wherein such cemetery may be situated, and shall be continued 
therein at least four weeks successively, once a week, next pre- 
ceding the time for said meeting. 

Sec. 63. — 'That if a majority of the votes cast at such meeting 
shall be in favor of such sale as aforesaid, then the board or body 
having the management of such cemetery shall be authorized and 
empowered to offer at public sale the lands so authorized to be 
sold. 

Sec. 64.- — That after such land as aforesaid shall have been 
offered at public sale and struck off to a bidder or bidders, the 
Secretary of such cemetery association, company or corporation 
shall call a meeting of the members thereof, by public notice, 
published in two newspapers printed and published in the county 
wherein such cemetery may be situated, for two weeks succes- 
sively, once a week, next preceding the time for said meeting, at 
which meeting the members shall vote "to confirm" or "not to 
confirm" such sale or sales; and if a majority of the votes cast 
at such meeting shall be "to confirm" such sale or sales, the 
board or body having the management of such cemetery shall 
cause to be executed and delivered to the bidder or bidders good 



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and valid deed or deeds of conveyance for the lands so sold as 
aforesaid. 

Sec. 65. — That the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be ap- 
propriated to the payment of the legal debts and liabilities of such 
cemetery association, company or corporation, and that the bal- 
ance remaining after payment of such legal debts and liabilities 
shall be held by the board or body having the management of 
such cemetery as a permanent fund, and shall be safely invested 
by such board or body and the annual interest thereof expended 
by them upon said cemetery in repairs, improvements, orna- 
mentation and other necessary expenses ; provided, that no part of 
said interest shall be paid as fees or salary to any member of 
such board or body; and provided further, that in the case of 
any cemetery association, company or corporation, which is or 
may be composed in part of the holders of shares of capital stock 
and in part of the owners of burial lots, the proceeds of such 
sale or sales, after payment of legal debts and liabilities, shall be 
divided into two equal parts or shares, one of which parts or 
shares may be paid as a dividend to the holders of capital stock, 
and the other of which shall be held by the board or body hav- 
ing the management of such cemetery as a permanent fund, and 
shall be safely invested by such board or body and the annual 
interest thereof expended as aforesaid for repairs, improvements, 
ornamentation and other necessary expenses. 

Sec. 66. — That the voting at any meeting of any cemetery asso- 
ciation, company or corporation, called under the provisions of 
this act, shall, as to the rights and qualifications of voters and the 
manner of conducting the election, be regulated and controlled 
by the laws, rules and By-Laws which regulate the election of 
officers in any such cemetery association, company or corpora- 
tion. 
Sec. 67. — (Supplementary act approved April i, 1887.) 
That it shall be lawful for the Board of Directors, Trustees or 
Managers of any cemetery or burial grounds in this State under 
the management and control of such a board, to invest any sur- 
plus monies or funds of said cemetery or burial grounds accru- 
ing from the sale of lots, graves or any other sources, in first- 
class mortgages or State, county or city bonds bearing interest, 
and any and all interest accrued thereon shall be for the benefit 
of said cemetery or burial ground funds for maintaining and 
improving said cemetery or burial ground. 



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Sec. 68. — That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this 
act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 69. — (Supplementary act approved April i, 1887.) 
That it shall be lawful for any cemetery corporation incor- 
porated under any special act of incorporation, whenever all of 
the lots into which the cemetery land is divided are disposed of^ 
to acquire additional real estate for the purposes of such corpora- 
tion, and to borrow money to pay for the same, and make and 
execute its bonds therefor ; provided, however, that no such cor- 
poration shall borrow more than twenty-thousand dollars under 
the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 70. — (Supplementary act approved March 12, 1890.) 
Whereas, there exist in the rural districts of the State of New 
Jersey many private burying-grounds which from neglect have 
become unsightly and offensive to a wholesome public sentiment, 
or are owned and controlled without proper organization for the 
improvement, maintenance and preservation of said grounds ; 
therefore, 

That it shall be lawful for the owners of any lot or parcel of 
land used as a burying-ground located in any of the townships 
of this State, or a majority of such owners, to convey to any 
cemetery association organized under the laws of New Jersey 
their title to the unoccupied portion of said burying-ground, to- 
gether with the control and management of all of said ground 
in conformity with the laws, regulating cemetery associations, on 
such terms as may be agreed upon between said parties ; pro- 
vided, that no assessment shall be made upon non-consenting 
owners for the care of graves and maintenance and improve- 
ments of the grounds therewith connected. 

Sec. 71. — (Supplementary act, passed April 7, 1890.) 
That in any cemetery in said State, belonging to any incorpor- 
ated company or association having a Board of Managers or 
Directors, and whether such corporation shall have been or shall 
be incorporated under a special act of this State or by the gen- 
eral laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the owner and owners 
of any lot or lots therein to transfer and convey any such lot or 
lots to any person or persons, or to the cemetery association 
having charge of the cemetery in which such lot or lots are 
situate, notwithstanding any restriction or prohibition of the sale 
of lots contained in the general laws of said State concerning 
cemeteries, or in the charter of any cemetery company ; provided. 



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however, that before any such transfer and conveyance shall be 
made, the Board of Managers or Directors of such cemetery 
association shall authorize such transfer and conveyance by a 
vote of at least three-fifths of the members of such board at a 
regular meeting of such board. 
Sec. 72.— (Supplementary act approved February 14, 1893.) 
That the Board of Managers, Directors or Trustees of any 
cemetery association, company or corporation of this State organ- 
ized under any general or special law or laws, or the body hav- 
ing the management of any such cemetery, by whatever name 
such body may be known, may ordain, pass and put uito execu- 
tion such By-Laws as they may judge to be necessary and con- 
venient for carrying into effect the objects of the association and 
for regulating such association; and may amend or repeal any 
By-Laws already in existence; provided, however, that no such 
change shall be made except by a vote of three-fourths of the 
total number of such managers, directors or trustees at a meet- 
ing thereof specially called to consider changes in the By-Laws. 
Sec. 73.— (Supplementary act passed March 5, 1896.) 
No new cemetery shall hereafter be established, nor shall any 
cemetery now existing be enlarged or any lands not now used 
for cemetery purposes be used for such purposes in cities of the 
first-class in this State, without the consent of common council 
and Board of Health of such city, to be expressed by resolution 
and the approval thereof by the Mayor of such city. 

All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same 
are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. 



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INDEX 



CEMETERY PAGE 

Acacia 9 

Aha wa Cheseds 9 

Arlington . . .' lo 

Baptist II 

Baron Hirsch 1 1 

Bayside 1 1 

Bay View 12 

Beechwood 13 

Bergen 14 

Bethel 13 

B'nai Abraham 14 

B nai Jeshurun 15 

B'nai Israel 15 

B'nai Jacob 15 

B'nai Jeshurun 16 

Calvary 16 

Cedar Grove 19 

Cedar Lawn 20 

Chevra B'nai Sholau ..,.,.. 21 

City Cemetery, New York 21 

City Cemetery, Brooklyn 22 

City Cemetery, Jersey City and Hoboken 22 

City Cemetery, Newark 23 

City Cemetery, Paterson 23 

Clinton 23 

Constable Hook 26 



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CEMETERY I'AGi:: 

Cypress Hills 26 

Dutch Reformed, Jersey City 28' 

Dutch Reformed (Paterson, N. J.) 27 

Edgewater 28' 

Episcopal 28 

Evergreens 29 

Evergreen, Elizabeth, N. J 30 

Evergreen, New Brunswick, N. J 30 

Fairlawn " 31 

Fairmount 31 

Fairview 32 

Flatlands 33 

Flower Hill ^;^ 

Flushing 34 

Fountain 35 

Friendly Hand 35 

Friends 35 

Gravesend 36 

Greenlawn 36 

Greenwood 2i7 

Greenwood Union 39 

Grove Church 40 

Hazelwood 40 

Hebrew .*. . 40 

Hillside 42 

Holy Cross 41 

Hoboken 41 

Holy Name 42 

Holy Sepulchre, East Orange, N. J 43 

Holy Sepulchre, New Rochelle, N. Y 43 

Holy Trinity 44 

Jersey City 44 



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CEMETERY PAGE 

Kensico 45 

Laurel Grove 48 

Linden Hill ^o 

Lutheran 50 

Macpela 51 

Macpelah 51 

Maimonides 52 

Manor 52 

Maple Grove 52 

Marble 53 

Methodist 55 

Moravian 54 

Mount Calvary '. 55 

Mount Hope, Jamaica, L. 1 55 

Mount Hope, Westchester County, N. Y 56 

Mount Neboh 56 

Mount Olivet, Maspeth, L. 1 57 

Mount Oliver, Elizabeth, N. J 58 

Mount Pleasant, Newark, N. J 60 

Mount Pleasant, Westchester, N. Y 58 

Mount St. Mary's 61 

Morgue of New York City 61 

Mount Zion „ 62 

National 62 

New Union Fields ^^ 

New York 63 

New York Bay 64 

Nyack Rural 66 

Oak Hill 66 

Oakland 67 

Ocean View 67 

Oheb Schalom 69 



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CEMETERY PAGE 

Paterson 70 

Pelham 70 

Potter's Field (see City Cemeteries') 21 — 23 

Presbyterian 70 

Quaker 71 

Raffeiner 71 

Rahway 71 

Ridgefield 72 

Rockland 72 

Roman Catholic 74 

Rosedale 74 

St. Ag-nes 76 

St. John, Brooklyn 77 

St. John's, Orange, N. J 78 

St. John's, Yonkers, N. Y 7S 

St. Joseph's 79 

St. Mary's, Rahway, N. J. 79 

St. Mary's, Clifton, S. 1 79 

St. Mary's, Yonkers, N. Y 80 

St. Michael's 80 

St. Adonica's 81 

St. Nicholas 81 

St. Peter's, Jersey City 82 

St. Peter's, Staten Island 82 

St. Peter's, Westchester, N. Y. C 83 

St. Raymond's 83 

Salem Fields 83 

Sandy Hill 84 

Schrallenberg 86 

Shareth Israel ; 86 

Silver Lake 87 

Silver Mount 86 



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Sleepy Hollow 87 

Speer's 89 

Staten Island 89 

Temple Bethel 90 

Trinity, Brooklyn go 

Trinity, New York go 

Union, Brooklyn 91 

Union Field 91 

Union, Rye, N. Y. (sec Greenwood Union Cemetery) 39 

United States Cremation Co 91 

U. S. Marine 92 

Washington 92 

Weehawken and Palisade 93 

White Plains Rural 54 

Woodland, Newark, N.J 04 

Woodland. Staten Island 94 

Woodlawn 95 

Woodrow qH 



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